56 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL-LIFE DAY. 



land that is cleared for cultivation. It is said that about 100,000,000 

 cords are used annually. 



The greater part of the salable timber, however, is sawed into 

 lumber, which is used in a variety of ways. The first and greatest 

 use of lumber is for building houses, barns, sheds, outbuildings, and 

 fences. 



Next comes furniture of all kinds — chairs, tables, beds, and all 

 other house, office, and school furniture; musical instruments; 

 vehicles of all kinds — wagons, carriages, buggies, and parts of auto- 

 mobiles; agricultural implements — plows, harrows, harvesters, 

 thrashing machines, and other farm implements. 



Car building is another great use for lumber — freight cars, pas- 

 senger cars, and trolley cars. Other important uses for timber are 

 for crossties, poles for telegraph and telephone lines, and "shoring" 

 or supports in mines. Even more trees are used in the manufacture 

 of paper than for these purposes. Then there are various small 

 articles used in the home, such as spools, butter dishes, fruit crates, 

 baskets, boxes, all kinds of tools, toys, picture frames, matches, pen- 

 cils, clothes pins, toothpicks, etc. These are little things, but so many 

 of them are used that they consume a great deal of wood. Next we 

 derive tannic acid for tanning leather, turpentine and rosin, maple 

 sugar, and many extracts used in making medicines. 



So valuable are the forests that the whole Nation is interested in 

 preserving them. No one is benefited more by them than the farmer, 

 and no one should be more interested in them. 



PRESERVE THE BEAUTY OF THE LANDSCAPE. 



In protecting our forests we preserve one of the finest features of 

 America's scenery. Trees give beauty, variety, and tone to every 

 natural picture that our eye rests upon. A shady road, a long, 

 green hillside, quiet woodlands in glorious autumn coloring, orchards 

 laden with ripening fruit! Compare that picture with a country 

 where the hillsides are worn into gullies, where rocks are seen every- 

 where cropping above the barren soil, where crops are scanty and 

 vegetation stunted. What a difference ! AAHio can enjoy an ari*d, 

 treeless view, whicli conveys a feeling of sadness and desolation? 

 But who can resist the fascination of a beautiful woodland scene, and 

 who can look upon it without a sensation of cheerfulness and satisfac- 

 tion? How good for the soul it is to rest the eye on a smiling 

 landscape ! 



There has been a great movement toward beautifying cities and 

 villages in the past few years. Streets are cleaner, sidewalks are 



