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strip one hundred miles wide, they would reach 

 from New York to San Francisco. They would 

 amount to an area almost eight times as large as 

 the combined forests of France which furnished 

 the bulk of the timber used by the Allies during 

 the World War. 



In the North, the farm woodlands compose 

 two-fifths of all the forests. Altogether there 

 are approximately 53,000,000 acres of farm 

 woodlots which yield a gross income of about 

 $162,000,000 annually to their owners. Surveys 

 show that in the New England States more than 

 65 per cent, of the forested land is on farms, while 

 in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa from 80 to 

 100 per cent, of the timber tracts are on corn belt 

 farms. Conditions in the South also emphasize 

 the importance of farm woods, as in this region 

 there are more than 125,000,000 acres which yield 

 an income of about $150,000,000 a year. In fact 

 the woodlands on the farms compose about 50 per 

 cent, of all the forest lands south of the Mason- 

 Dixon line. In Maryland, Virginia, North 

 Carolina, Kentucky and Oklahoma, over 60 per 

 cent, of all the forest land is on farms. 



The Government says timber raising is very 

 profitable in the Eastern States because there 



