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sycamore, and elm to .7 ton ; yellow poplar and Cottonwood to .6 ton ; 

 willow and basswood to .5 ton. 



It was found that the average farm of 1-10 acres which burned 

 wood exclusively used 21.4 cords per year, while on farms which burned 

 both coal and wood 13.4 cords were used and 7.66 tons of coal. Farms 

 burning coal only consumed 9.8 tons per year. The wood burning or 

 wood and coal burning farms were those which had fairly large wood- 

 lots, and the average of wood on all farms using it wholly or partly for 

 fuel was 16.1 cords per year. From this figure, divided into the assumed 

 total wood-production for farms of 885,79"2 cords, it is indicated that 

 about 55,018 farms, or 23.3 per cent of all farms, use wood for fuel 

 at this average rate of consumption per farm, while 76.7 per cent burn 

 coal or oil exclusively. When the acreage of woodland per farm is 

 more than 5 acres, 98. 1 per cent of the owners make considerable use 

 of wood for fuel, but when the wood-lot drops below 5 acres per farm. 

 only 44 per cent of such owners burned wood for fuel. These small 

 wood-lots are often grazed and park-like, or are prized for shelter or 

 appearance, and are not adequate as a source of wood fuel. 



The indicated consumption of coal by farmers is 2,061,046 tons. 

 The assumed 885,792 cords of wood produced on farms at .8 ton per 

 cord gives the equivalent of 708,634 tons, or a total equivalent of 2,769, 

 680 tons for the farmers of the state as a whole, of which wood forms 

 25.59 per cent in fuel value. While 23.3 per cent of all farmers burn 

 some wood, 7.9 per cent still burn it exclusive of coal and 15.4 per cent 

 burn both coal and wood. 



A significant fact brought out by this inquiry is that those farmers 

 who have a plentiful supply of wood-fuel use considerably larger quanti- 

 ties of fuel than when forced to buy coal. Based on fuel equivalents, 

 farmers burning only wood consume 176.5 per cent of the heat luiits 

 consumed by farmers burning only coal, while those who supplement 

 the use of wood by purchasing some coal consume 177.3 per cent of the 

 heat units consumed by those burning only coal. This discrepancy is 

 too large to be completely offset by the supplementary use of kerosene 

 or other fuel oils by those who do not have wood to burn. Farmers 

 who have wood-lots apparently live in greater comfort than those who 

 do not. Yet the coal-burning farmer pays as much for his smaller 

 quantity of fuel as his wood-burning neighbor, even when the cost of 

 labor and a fair price for stumpage is charged against the wood. The 

 average cost of coal to farmers was $6.60 per ton. For wood the cost 



