Supplement to 



Home IRature = Stubi^ Course 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 in October, December, February and April and Entered October 

 I, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under 

 Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



New Series. Vol. II. ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER-JANUARY, 1905-6 No. 2 



Photographed by Verne Morton. 



TREE STUDY 



IN THE WOOD-LOT 



The up-to-date farmer is thinking as much about his wood-lot and 

 what is in it as he is about the fields which he sows to wheat or plants 

 to corn. With the destruction of our forests, wood and lumber have 

 Ijecome very expensive. The products of the wood-lot are a source of 

 certain income to the farmer, and at the same time if properly harvested 

 do not deplete the forest. The kinds of trees growing in the wood-lot ; 

 the proportions of soft and hard woods ; which trees to let grow and 

 which to cut out ; and what sort it pays to plant, are questions which, 

 if decided wisely, add much to the cash value of the farm. 



It is for the sake of getting the children and the young people inter- 



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