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- I. Where you live is there need of foresters or of 



Questions. arboris{s? why? 



2. What is the relation between forests and rainfall? Between 

 forests and stream flow ? Between forests and the atmosphere ? 



3. Is the influence of forests upon stream flow the same in a 

 flat country with porous soil like South Jersey that it is in a moun- 

 tainous country, or in a hilly region like North Jersey? 



4. In what ways are city people interested in or dependent upon 

 forests ? 



5. Why are shade trees important to country people? To city 

 people ? 



6. In cities and towns is public control or private control of shade 

 trees to be preferred ? Why ? 



7. How does the lack of forests affect the people of a com- 

 munity ? 



FORESTRY IN NEW JERSEY. 



As a whole, the State needs no more forest : with 46 per cent, of 

 its surface wooded the task is to establish valuable, productive for- 

 est, where little more than wreckage now is. Exceptions to this 

 rule will be found on many farms where sandy land, rocky land or 

 wet land can be profitably planted. An axiom in forestry reads, 

 "Use all the poor land, clear the good for farming." 



i. How much forest has' your countv? (See report 

 Questions. Ci ~ . . 



State Geologist, 1899.) 



2. Is there any land that is lying idle? Where? 



3. What kinds of trees are in the forests near by ? Note : If the 

 trees are all, or nearly all, of one kind it is a "pure" forest, in South 

 Jersey are many pure pine forests : if of several kinds it is a "mixed" 

 forest; all the forests of North Jersey are mixed. 



Much of the forestry in this State deals with small 

 forests called woodlots. A farm with a woodlot is 

 always worth more than one without, because it produces, or may 

 produce, the farm lumber and fuel which otherwise must be bought. 

 A farmer who cares for his woodlot, cuts the wood he needs care- 

 fully and in the winter when work is slack, can save many dollars. 



