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3 feet, rarely 6 to 8 feet, of straight material, 3 to 4 inch diameter 

 can be harvested, and trees more than 9 to 10 inches in diameter are 

 usually unsound. Moreover, for operations based entirely on mesquite 

 the character of its occurrence is inimical, for in a trip of over 600 

 miles not more than five tracts, comprising 9,300 acres and containing 

 6 million feet, measured dow^n to 2-foot lengths, could be found. 



The wood can only be used for specialities and novelties, small 

 turnery, such as gavels, goblets, rings, trays, tool handles, possibly 

 parquetry and paving blocks. This would insure about a twelve years' 

 run for a suitable mill. 



Mr. Krausz figures out a logging and milling cost of $21 to $27, 

 and describes the way of doing business. Two mills were found 

 working up local supplies. It is quite evident from the report that 

 no industry can be established on this class of raw material, except 

 as a side issue in working up the material coming from the lands that 

 are turned into farms, which requires the digging up of the mesquite. 



B. E. F. 



The Status and Value of Farm IVoodlots in the Eastern United 

 States. By E. H. Frothingham, Forest Examiner. Bulletin 481, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Contribution from the Forest Service, 

 Washington, D. C. 19 17. 



The purpose of this bulletin, as stated by the author, is "to show 

 as nearly as it can be done from available census statistics what the 

 relation of the woodlot has been to the agricultural development of 

 different parts of the East, what the tendency appears to be, and, in 

 general, what value the woodlot actually has to the nation, the rural 

 community, and to the individual farm." 



The farm lands in the Eastern States are grouped in 6 divisions, 

 each consisting of the counties having similar ratios of woodland to 

 the total farm land according to the thirteenth census (1910). These 

 "woodlot divisions," shown graphically on a map, range from light 

 wooded regions (Divisions I) having less than 10 per cent of the 

 total farm land wooded, to heavily wooded regions (Divisions VI), 

 having more than 80 per cent wooded. The tables in the bulletin are 

 based on those divisions, so that the chief facts relating to the status 

 of woodlots in any part of the Eastern States can be easily ascertained. 



In order to compare the progress of agricultural development with 

 the decrease or increase of farm woodlot areas, the author has selected 



