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by the Forest Service, fundamentally affect the future management 

 of the farms. As very few farmers are accustomed to formulating 

 farm plans, the agent of the Forest Service, besides being called 

 upon to give advice in matters pertaining to technical forestry, is 

 usually drafted into this service as well. After consultation with 

 the landholder and consideration of all the matters affected by the 

 policy of management, he is able to bring out an orderly arrange- 

 ment which will permit on the same farm the practice of both scien- 

 tific agriculture and scientific forestry. 



fUBLIC StOAO 



h 



BW BW BW BW 



C HC MC HC 



BW 6W 6* 



HC MC HC 



HC HC HC H< 



HC HC 



HC = HARDY CATALPA 

 SQUIRED NUMBER Or TREES PER 



BLACK WALNUT 9O7 



HARDY CATALPA 9O7 

 TOTAL IB I 4 



FIG. 1. Arrangement of forest plantations on a farm in central Oiiio to facilitate scientific 



farm management. 



A CONCRETE EXAMPLE. 



The planting plan shown in fig. 1 was made for a farm in central 

 Ohio, and illustrates graphically the bearing that forest planting may 

 have on the management of a farm. This farm in Ohio contains 375 

 acres, and that part of it which is devoted to agriculture is capable of 

 earning interest on a capitalization of $100 per acre ; not a foot of it 

 is unsuited to tillage. That part which was originally heavily tim- 

 bered has all been cleared, except a blue-grass pasture of 30 or -iO 



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