FORESTRY FROM TWO VIEWPOINTS 



By J. J. CRUMLEY, Ohio State Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio 



It would be difficult to find a subject that attracts the atten- 

 tion of as great a variety of people as does forestry. First, there 

 is the plain farmer who owns a hundred or more acres of land, 

 and has located on that area a small wood-lot; or perhaps has 

 no trees and therefore feels very keenly the need of such and 

 is endeavoring to start a grove. Then there is the large land 

 owner or a company of men having large holdings that contain 

 a large percentage of waste lands. These men are beginning to 

 observe that such lands are bringing no income. They wish to 

 know how they may change these from non-producing to pro- 

 ducing lands. Again, there is the owner of a beautiful piece of 

 real estate on some village or city street. This piece of property 

 may possess a row of handsome shade trees that need care and 

 protection from the elements, animals and man, or perhaps the 

 lot is entirely bare as far as trees are concerned. 



These people, following entirely different pursuits in life, 

 differing very widely in their individual tastes, are all interested 

 in the culture and care of trees. This may in a measure come 

 about by the fact that forestry has two phases totally different — 

 the economic, and the aesthetic or sentimental. 



A certain farmer owned a woodland that contained some 

 valuable oak timber. He sold this to a lumberman. In that 

 woodland was also a walnut tree having a large hollow in it near 

 the ground. The lumberman crawled into this hole and dis- 

 covered that it extended but a short distance up the tree. The 

 farmer had never done this. The lumberman bought the old 

 "hollow" tree for five dollars, sawed it into veneering which 

 he sold for four hundred and fifty dollars. 



Land owners in Ohio today are selling the few remaining 

 majestic yellow polar trees at twenty to thirty dollars per thous- 

 and on the stump. Twelve or fifteen dollars per thousand will 

 take the trees from the woods and convert them into lumber. 

 This added to the orginal stumpage price makes, let us say, 

 forty dollars per thousand. If the land owner wishes to buy 

 some of this lumber he pays from sixty to eighty dollars per 

 thousand for it. Who gets the other twenty to forty dollars ? 



Two men living in adjoining neighborhoods in 1910 were 

 selling white oak logs to a lumberman in a neighboring town. 

 One received twenty dollars per thousand for logs thirty inches 



