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The Farm Woodlot 



curred in the 

 Lake States and 

 in the East and 

 South, but the 

 lumberman has 

 destroyed prac- 

 tically all of 

 them. The great 

 pine areas have 

 been so com- 

 pletely cut over 

 and burned that 

 most of our pine 

 land does not 

 now produce 

 pine, but instead 

 worthless brush 

 and small un- 

 important trees. 

 The pines do 

 not sprout as 

 do hardwoods. 

 Trees under 

 twenty years of 

 age rarely bear 

 good seed and 

 when all others 

 are cut, there is 

 no chance for 

 new pine trees 



FIG. 4. Mature Norway pine. Pinus resinosa. to grow. 



