one or both of two main purposes. They afford shelter 

 to crops, buildings, and stock, and they furnish a 

 ivady supply of firewood, fence posts, and other low- 

 Tado material for farm uses or for sale in nearby 

 communities. Of the $195,000,000 forest crop of 1909, 

 the farms themselves used $103,000,000 worth, and 

 only $92,000,000 worth was sold. 



In striking contrast to this figure, the total value 

 of all forest products for the United States was more 

 than a billion dollars, of which approximately three- 

 fourths came from the woodlands owned by lumber- 

 men. Few people realize that farmers own as large 

 an area of forest land as do all of the lumbermen 

 and other private owners combined. Yet such is the 

 case. Moreover, the farm forests, in most instances, 

 have a decided advantage over the holdings of other 

 owners in that they are usually easy of access and 

 are close to a market for the low-grade material that 

 is wasted in most lumbering operations. In fact, 

 this low-grade material, really almost a by-product 

 of the main business of growing timber, is, in a very 

 large proportion of cases, about all that the farm for- 

 ests now produce. 



This condition is due entirely to neglect and lack 

 of knowledge of woodlot care. With any treatment, 

 or lack of treatment, which stops short of the most 

 ruinous abuse, the farm forest will provide shelter, 

 and also a certain amount of firewood, fencing, and 

 similar material. But it will not be a profitable part 

 of the farm. There is no more reason to feel satisfied 

 with a woodlot which merely fills these needs than 

 there is to be satisfied with wheat which yields only 



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