Agricultural Experiment Station [Bulletin 337 



to evaluate the possibilities 

 of increasing net farm in- 

 come, in the immediate fu- 

 ture and over a longer pe- 

 riod, by adjusting the farm 

 organization to include for- 

 estry as a supplementary 

 enterprise and by more eco- 

 nomic use of agricultural 

 and forest resources on the 

 farms in the area. 



PROCEDURE 



A schedule of informa- 

 "^ tion was secured from 

 80 farms selected at random 

 from the three towns. It 

 included data concerning 

 present farming resources 

 and organization, hours of 

 man and horse labor used 

 in woodland operations 

 during the same period, ad- 

 ditional time available for 

 woods work during a nor- 

 mal year, and the operator's 

 interest in more woods 

 work as a means of in- 

 creasing farm income. 



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C3 FURNITDRE FACTORY 



Fig. 1. Map of Coos County showing loca- 

 tion OF WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES AND THE 

 TOWNSHIPS IN THE AREA STUDIED. 



A recent forest survey by the United States Forest Service and 

 cooperating agencies furnished the information about land ownership, 

 cover types, growth rates, and volume of merchantable timber at the 

 present time. * Type and ownership maps were prepared that cover 

 very completely the farm and other small holdings in the area. No 

 data were collected for the wildlands and scattered small lots owned 

 by the large companies. A reconnaissance of these lands was made 

 as a part of the present study to secure pertinent data to supplement 

 those already collected for all other forest land. This reconnaissance 

 was made with the assistance of a local resident having intimate 

 knowledge of the timberland in all three towns. Although in no way 

 as detailed as the forest survey, it did serve to indicate the amount 

 and condition of present growing stocks on a considerable acreage 

 and throw some light on the potentialities of that acreage to produce 

 future crops. 



One method of making woodland and its products available to a 



1 Survey completed in 1939. 



