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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



extension services. There is usually a director of ex- 

 tension in charge of this work corresponding to tin- 

 dean in charge of the teaching on the campus and the 

 director of the experiment station in charge of investi- 



A SPLENDID STAND OF SPRUCE 

 This land was formerly pastured and timber raising is therefore more profitable here than grazing 



gational work. The money is largely distributed among 

 various extension projects according to his knowledge of 

 the needs of the states, but under the supervision of the 

 States Relations Service at 

 Washington. 



A few fundamental lines of 

 extension work have been 

 developed which rightly utilize 

 most of the money. Of these 

 the employment of county 

 agents is most important. About 

 half of all the money available 

 is utilized in maintaining this 

 force of agricultural experts 

 who are in a position to bring 

 any methods of improved agri- 

 culture, including forestry, 

 directly to the attention of the 

 farmers. The work for farm 

 women very appropriately comes 

 next, utilizing 15 per cent of the 

 funds. Under this project a 

 great many counties have home- 

 demonstration agents. Boys' 

 and girls' club work holds a 

 well-deserved position next to 

 the women's work, having 7 per 

 cent of the funds. 



In addition to these three fundamental agencies by 

 which all lines of agriculture may be brought directly 

 to the men, women, and children, there is in each exten- 



sion service a growing body of specialists responsible 

 for extending the knowledge of the various branches of 

 agriculture throughout the state and corresponding to 

 the professors who teach in the institution. Thus we 

 have specialists on animal 

 industry, dairying, horticul- 

 ture, agronomy, entomology, 

 rural engineering, and in a few 

 cases in forestry, according to 

 the needs of the state as judged 

 by the extension director. 



The question naturally arises 

 as to whether the extension 

 directors are awake to the im- 

 portance of farm forestry as a 

 branch of agriculture and 

 whether the time is not ripe for 

 the expenditure of part of this 

 money for extension in forestry 

 as its importance would seem 

 to indicate. Statistics recently 

 complied by the Bureau of Crop 

 Estimates show that for the 

 year 1918 cordwood was the 

 sixth most important crop of 

 our farms, being exceeded in 

 value only by corn, wheat, oats, 

 hay and cotton. The total farm value of this crop was 

 $487,106,000. While it is true that there is no relation 

 between the amount grown in a year and the amount cut 



AX UNFORTUNATE MIXTURE 



Here valuable white pine is being injured by inferior gray birch. The latter should be removed to help 



the pine, 



it is also worthy of note that there are other valuable 

 products of the farm woodlands such as posts, ties, poles, 

 lumber, etc. 



