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town for a stick of tim- 

 ber, and will often make 

 the farmer independent 

 of coal strikes. Even 

 though coal is obtain- 

 able, a fire-place for 

 wood makes a house 

 cheerful and every 

 farmer should have one 

 and cut a supply cf 

 wood for it from his 

 own land. In the re- 

 gions cf hilly land, as 

 New York and New 

 England, the wood-lot 

 is a natural part of the 

 farm. 



A wood-lot is a desir- 

 able feature for the 

 farm from the point of 

 view of a landscape- 

 gardener even more 

 than from that of a 

 forester (Fig. 41). An 

 area of woods helps to 



