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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



the steamer, they did not suffer at all, 

 but arrived in Quebec after a ten days' 

 voyage in fine condition. They were 

 taken out of the steamer's hold in crates 

 about eight feet long by four feet wide 

 by five feet high, fotir to a crate, and 

 driven to the railway where they were 

 placed loose in a box car, and arrived at 

 their destination in good shape. There 



they were placed in inclosed pieces of 

 woodland where there is plenty of 

 browse and some pasture and are now 

 fat and sleek. They are just com- 

 mencing to lose the velvet from their 

 horns, and as soon as the rut is over the 

 training to harness will commence. 

 They will be used for sled work at some 

 of the lumber camps of the company. 



FENCE OFF WOODLOTS 



THE importance of fencing off 

 from cattle a woodlot on each 

 farm now being cleared in 

 northern Wisconsin has been 

 emphasized recently by representatives 

 both of the Wisconsin State Forester's 

 office and of the United States Forest 

 Service. F. G. Wilson, of the State 

 service at Madison, accompanied by 

 Benton Mackaye, a member of the 

 National Forest Service at Washing- 

 ton, have been examining the wood- 

 land in that vicinity of northern Wis- 

 consin. 



"The one essential need in preserv- 

 ing the woodland in this country," said 

 Mr. Wilson, "is to have a woodlot, 

 free from cattle, of ten or twenty 

 acres on each farm. No farm is com- 

 plete without a woodlot. Every good 

 farmer, of course, knows this. It is 

 needed, not only for firewood and 

 building material, but also for the yield 

 in dollars and cents which it will bring. 

 The pioneers of northern Wisconsin 

 are people who look ahead. They are 

 right now building homes, not alone 

 for themselves, but for their children. 

 The wood crop is slow, but it is sure ; 

 and, unlike other crops, it needs very 

 little cultivation. 



But there is one thing that the wood- 

 lot needs right off, and that is a fence 



around it. A pennanent woodlot needs 

 young trees growing up quite as much 

 as growing stock needs feed. I under- 

 stand perfectly well that cattle need 

 tree shade. Let them have it. But 

 they don't need all the shade there is. 

 Don't fence off all your woodland ; 

 fence off ten acres on every forty and 

 let the cattle run through the rest of 

 it. There should be enough trees left 

 in the pasture to shade the cattle just 

 as there should be enough trees left 

 around the house to shade the folks. 

 And in addition to these trees, there 

 should be a woodlot, where there is 

 'no trespassing' for cattle. 



"A woodlot of about 20 acres on 

 each 80-acre farm will add many dol- 

 lars in value to that farm in future 

 years. 



"The pioneer seems to have one 

 main idea in mind — to clear the land. 

 He forgets to leave the very thing 

 that later he will work hard to get 

 back. Here is where the pioneer has 

 his chance over the established farmer. 

 If he would only concentrate his clear- 

 ing on four-fifths of his farm — clear 

 that well and simply protect the rest 

 as a woodlot — he would then be mak- 

 ing a complete home and outfit for his 

 family instead of an incomplete one." 



Wood for Handles 



As many as 72 different kinds of wood are used in the manufacture of umbrella handle?, canes 

 and whips in this country. 



Cinders Carried Twenty Miles 



Authentic records show that c^'nders, from a forest fire in the tree tops in northern Wash- 

 ington this fall, were carried a distance of twenty miles. 



