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CONCLUSION. 



Forestry is but a branch of the great industry of agriculture, but it 

 can give important aid to the farmer in getting sustenance for the 

 human race from the soil. It has been shown that where forest 

 planting is desirable, the planting plan is of fundamental importance 

 to the management of the farm which is concerned. The location 

 and cultivation of these forests may either make them peculiarly 

 advantageous or cause them to become a detriment to the economical 

 management of the farm. 



The planting plans which have been set forth in the preceding 

 pages are not regarded as perfect, but are given as suggestions of what 

 may be done to make farm forest planting serviceable. They are 

 based on considerable practical experience, and it is believed that they 

 demonstrate beyond a doubt how far superior is a well-considered, 

 systematic method of handling the problems of farm forestry to the 

 haphazard, careless methods so often practiced in the past. 



Farmers are now receiving instructions from the Department of 

 Agriculture both for the establishment of forest plantations and for 

 the inauguration of cropping systems, but it seldom happens that the 

 same farmer receives instruction in both matters at the same time. 

 The intimate relations existing between farm management and forest 

 planting are so patent and their importance is so great that the two 

 should go hand in hand. It is to be hoped that as the practice of 

 scientific agriculture spreads, model farms may be laid out in all 

 parts of the United States, on which practicable plans for forest 

 planting may be demonstrated and the best methods of planning the 

 various parts of a farm so as to make provision for an economical 

 and practicable system of crop rotation may be illustrated. Farmers, 

 in order to get the services of Government experts in planning both 

 forest plantations and systems of farm management, should make 

 application for instructions both to the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 and to the Forest Service. 



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