lands are fully stocked -with the kinds of trees that 

 will produce the greatest return. Using these lands 

 to grow poor crops of inferior wood is very much like 

 using good pasture land to support scrub cattle. Cer- 

 tainly, no good farmer would market steadily the best 

 animals from a herd of cows and breed from the 

 poorest. 



Recent developments are bringing out much more 

 clearly than ever before the opportunities to make 

 farm woodlands yield a good return. The increasing 

 scarcity of many important and high-priced woods, 

 such as black walnut, black locust, red cedar, ash, 

 hickory, and white oak, is resulting in an intensive 

 combing over of the small holdings in many parts of 

 the country. In some sections, the search for timber 

 for box boards or for pulp is almost as intensive. The 

 extension of good roads and the development of the 

 motor truck have made it possible, in many instances, 

 for buyers to scour a region and even pick up single 

 trees, where they could not consider any lots less 

 than a carload. Farmers who have been far-sighted 

 enough to maintain their woods in first-class condi- 

 tion are noAV in position to begin to reap the bene- 

 fits, if they have not already done so. Those . who 

 have overlooked the possibilities of timber as a 

 money-producing crop should take immediate steps 

 to develop this important source of farm revenue. 



.More than half of the entire hardwood forest area 

 in the country is on farms, and, with the cutting out 

 and gradual clearing of the larger hardwood tracts, 

 they must, more and more, come to be the main 

 source of supply for many of our most valuable woods. 



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