1917. CIRCULAR No. 58 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY. WTT 







THE WOODLOT 



BY 



CHAS A. SCOTT. 



( From the Twentieth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board 

 of Agriculture.) 



'TVHE CARE of the woodlot is an important item in farm 

 A management that has received but little attention in this 

 state. Every acre of natural or planted timber growing on 

 Kansas farms should be a source of income and profit to the 

 farm. The products from the woodlot are sawlogs, railroad 

 ties, poles, posts, fuel wood and nuts. 



The sawlogs from the Kansas woodlots furnish excellent 

 lumber for interior use in farm buildings. It is especially 

 serviceable for joists, beams, studding, and sheathing for 

 houses, and for floors and partition boards for bins and stalls 

 in barns and sheds. For such uses our native lumber is more 

 durable and more satisfactory than the pine lumber from the 

 local lumber yard. A great many of our native logs are sawn 

 into box boards and crating material at the local mills, and 

 command a good price for such uses. In some sections of the 

 state the native logs are in good demand at barrel stave and 

 head factories. The cotton wood is recognized as one of the 

 very best woods for staves for flour, vegetable and fruit bar- 

 rels. The elm, hackberry, ash and soft maple are used exten- 

 sively for barrel headings. The black-walnut logs are con- 

 sidered too valuable for local consumption, and the most of 

 them are bought by wholesale walnut-log buyers and shipped 

 to Eastern consumers. Second-growth hickory is in good de- 

 mand at vehicle factories, and the cordwood finds ready sale 



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