adapted to produeinu' timber, and with the most effi- 

 cient handling of the lands devoted to this important 

 crop. 



The department, through one of its bureaus, the 

 Forest Service, has for years been studying the prob- 

 lems which scientific timber production involve, and 



can. therefore, give much helpful advice to farmers as 

 to progressive methods. The department has also in- 

 augurated a nation-wide movement looking to the 

 general practice of forestry by private owners, so 

 that the forest devastation, which now almost univer- 

 sally attends or follows large-scale lumbering may 

 1 e hailed. 



Most farm woodlands are used to a greater or less 

 extent for pasturing stock. Many woodlots start as 

 open pastures, in which the trees gradually seed in and 

 shade out the forage crop.' Others start as dense for- 

 egts, where the stock and frequent fires, by gradual- 



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