AND HER FORESTS 



feet of rough lumber a year into finished prod- 

 ucts. When we realize that this is only a part 

 of the product in one state, certainly not one- 

 half of it, but only that portion which, after 

 it leaves the sawmills, is further worked by 

 machinery, it may give a basis for judging the 

 industry. These wood-working industries are 

 scattered everywhere throughout New Eng- 

 land, and there are many thriving villages 

 whose main livelihood is dependent upon 

 them. 



FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE 



Forestry and general agriculture in New 

 England are to a great degree interdepend- 

 able. While it is conceded that forestry is no 

 longer a simple woodlot proposition, but one 

 worthy of the economic utilization of all lands 

 non-agricultural, nevertheless its develop- 

 ment makes possible the use of labor and 

 teams in winter at a time when they are 

 available. Large forest areas in various sec- 

 tions will greatly augment, therefore, both 

 manufacturing and agriculture. 



We have not begun to realize even yet 

 what we should in the economic utilization of 

 the forest products we still possess. It was 

 not until we were freezing, due to the coal 

 shortage following war conditions, that we 

 realized that wood has a value for fuel. Our 

 fathers depended upon it altogether. 



In recent years wood has gone out of style, 

 and even farmers have found it more conve- 

 nient to have coal shipped in from Pennsyl- 

 vania and West Virginia than to cut it on 

 their own farms. It is an actual fact that 

 during the trying times a few years since, the 

 winter of the unemployed, there were instances 



