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extensive cordwood use, our farm woodlots are 

 producing only about one-third to one-half of the 

 wood supplies which they could grow if they 

 were properly managed. 



The farmer who appreciates the importance 

 of caring for his home forests is always interested 

 in knowing how much timber will grow on an 

 acre during a period of twelve months. The 

 Government reports that where the farm wood- 

 lots are fully stocked with trees and well-cared 

 for, an acre of hardwoods will produce from 

 one-half to one cord of wood a cord of wood is 

 equal to about 500 board feet of lumber. A pine 

 forest will produce from one to two cords of wood 

 an acre. The growth is greater in the warmer 

 southern climate than it is in the North where 

 the growing season is much shorter. Expert 

 foresters say that posts and crossties can be 

 grown in from ten to thirty years and that most 

 of the rapid growing trees will make saw timber 

 in between twenty and forty years. 



After the farm woodland is logged, a new 

 stand of young trees will develop from seeds or 

 sprouts from the stumps. Farmers find that it is 

 profitable to harrow the ground in the cut-over 

 woodlands to aid natural reproduction, or to turn 

 hogs into the timber tract to rustle a living as 



