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always more or less of a loss along any boundary, whether 

 it be a fence or a row of trees, so the windbreak should 

 not be charged with too much waste. In any case the 

 wood produced in the break will more than pay for all the 

 land it occupies or wastes entirely aside from the protection 

 it affords. 



Lastly, the profits from groves already harvested show 

 that there is not a section of the northeastern United 

 States or Canada where a farm woodlot of the proper size 

 will not produce a crop more valuable, that is, yielding a 

 higher net revenue per annum, than any grain crop. 

 Therefore the woodlot should always be given a prominent 

 and definite place in any plan of farm management, not for 

 any sentimental or esthetic reason, but because it is a 

 money-maker, the best one on the farm. 



THE CLEARING OF A FARM 



There is one type of farm on which forestry must 

 necessarily play a much larger part than it does on the 

 older and more settled parts of the country or on the 

 windy prairies, yet it has so far received absolutely no 

 attention. This type comprises those farms that are now 

 being cleared in the timbered or cut-over regions. 



It is very natural that little attention should have been 

 given these farms in a forestry way. These districts have 

 always had a superabundance of timber. Logging has 

 been the principal business. Most of the settlers have 

 taken the claims for the sake of the timber on them, or 

 because they were cheap stump land. Many of them have 

 worked in the logging camps and have the logger's con- 

 tempt for anything except big, clear saw timber. They 



