10 



Agricultural Experiment Station [Bulletin 337 



a number of private and corporate holding's not connected with farms. 

 These lands are located as scattered small lots and larger tracts in the 

 rough hilly sections. 



The land use pattern also varies greatly. In places agticulture 

 was never of much importance. The character of the soil and topog- 

 raphy made cultivation impractical, and these areas have remained 

 continuously in woodland. In the back areas adjoining this land and 

 in other places, land that was once in farms has been in the process 

 of abandonment for many years. This land is rapidly growing up to 

 some form of forest cover. The remainder of the woodland is to be 

 found as a part of individual farm units. 



There is considerable variation in the size of the farm woodlands. 

 Over 50 percent contain less than 100 acres and, more significantly, 

 26 percent are under 50 acres (See Figs. 3 and 4). It is doubtful if less 

 than 50 acres of woodland, under present growing conditions, will 



NUMBER 



24 



OF FARMS f 



JO 



ACRES 



Fk;. 3. 



CORDING 



MUflBER OF FARn5 



100 150 200 250 500 550 400 450 ^r 



Distribution of sample farms ac- 

 to woodland acreage. 



10 20 

 ACRE.S 



50 40 50 



Fig. 4. Distribution of sample 



FARMS which HAVE LESS THAN 

 50 ACRES WOODLAND liY SIZE OF 

 WOODLAND ACREAGE. 



more than meet home needs for fuel and lumber over a period of years. 

 Under proper management this figure might be lowered to 30 acres. 

 Even if the latter figure is accepted as the minimum, there would still 

 be \2y2 percent of the total number of farms with insufficient wood- 

 land acreages (See Fig. 4). Most of these farmers would have some 

 material to sell because of an excess of certain species or some species 



