there have been some calls upon it for box lumber. These require- 

 ments are practically the same as will be found on any other farm. 

 The stove-wood is easily secured from necessary thinnings, the 

 removal of dead trees, etc., and may be looked upon as entirely a 

 waste product. According to our experience the removal of stove- 

 wood does not any more than pay for the work required sometimes 

 less than that. It is altogether probable that there is very little land 

 in the State where stove-wood can be grown and harvested at a 

 profit. If a woodlot yields nothing better than this, its owner can 

 make money by giving it away. 



Fence posts and stakes are always in demand on a farm. On this 

 farm they are largely used for making grape trellises, staking up 

 bush fruits, etc. They are worth considerably more than fire wood, 

 and are a trifle harder to produce, yet may be taken in quantity from 

 any fairly well managed woodlot. In our own case we find Ameri- 

 can larch one of the best species for producing this class of material. 

 Several of the photographs show the larch trees, which of course 

 were planted in this situation. 



Dimension lumber can be secured from any straight, clear, forest- 

 grown trees of reasonable sizes. In our wood we find chestnut and 

 hemlock the most productive, with oak and maple standing second. 

 We have no large white pine, which might easily be one of the best. 

 In the production of good dimension lumber, real forest conditions 

 are required and some length of time is necessary. The trees must 

 stand close enough together to make clean, straight trunks. They 

 should be culled out as fast as they reach maturity, and frequently 

 certain trees have to be cut before absolutely mature in order to 

 favor other trees or to improve the forest composition. 



Box lumber is required on our farm in making boxes for marketing 

 fruit and vegetables, and for making greenhouse flats. Any fairly 

 clear soft wood will answer. Hemlock does well and even poplar is 

 good. The harder and more valuable kinds of lumber may well be 

 saved for more honorable uses. 



Species of Trees. The varied requirements of almost any farm 

 make it desirable to have several different kinds of trees growing in 

 the woodlot. In this respect our own lot is a model. We have 

 more than mere samples of the following species : chestnut, white 

 oak, red oak, hard maple, yellow birch, white birch, larch (often 

 known as tamarack), Scotch pine, and hemlock. There are small 

 quantities of other species. For example there is considerable small 



