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of the woods in the form of small, mostly isolated, and fenced tracts. 

 Examples would be sections of the Connecticut and Cumberland valleys, 

 the region lying east of Buffalo, N. Y., the blue grass regions of Ken- 

 tucky and Tennessee, and the "black prairie" of Alabama and Missis- 

 sippi. Generally, however, while the forester has been talking and writ- 

 ing about the woodlot, the owners and users of wooded or timbered 

 portions of farms in most regions have been using other names for 

 them. In very many instances "woodlot" is a misfit. 



"Farm forestry" is an expressive and dignified term and should 

 largely replace the current term "woodlot forestry." The former in- 

 cludes broadly all phases of forestry for the farm, such as the planting 

 of trees for windbreaks and reclaiming eroded or gullied lands, the 

 care and improvement of farm woodland — whether small sized or 

 larger irregular woodland areas — and the production, utilization, and 

 marketing of farm timber. One could appropriately speak, for example, 

 of the method of handling a certain woodlot, when referring to a woods 

 of small area and regular shape, but to refer collectively to all the 

 wooded farm land in a region or a State as "woodlots" rather than 

 "woodland" seems decidedly a poor usage of words. Other generic 

 terms to be considered in this connection are "woods," "woodland 

 products," "farm timber," or "forest products from farm woodlands." 

 Why not place the word "woods" in our every-day forestry literature? 

 It is short and expressive and is the word most widely used by the 

 people in referring to the wooded portions of farms. 



The views here expressed were set forth by the author during the 

 past spring (1917) and have already received the personal endorsement 

 of many workers in farm forestry in the eastern United States. It 

 seems worth while to make sure that the terms used in connection with 

 promoting forestry in agriculture be such as to convey adequately the 

 breadth and importance of the subject and efifectively reach the people. 



