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crooked, forked, knotty, hollow and 

 punky trees. 



9. Cut all mature or over-mature 

 trees which have been left as un- 

 merchantable, except good seed trees. 



10. Cut trees of the poorer species 

 which are not worth more for some 

 other purpose. 



11, Cut wolf trees — those large, 

 .spreading, over-mature trees of good 



and poor species which are occupying 

 more than their proper share of 

 the ground and will not make pro- 

 fitable timber trees. Sometimes wolf 

 trees must be left tor seed, but if good 

 timber trees are present, they should 

 be preferred for seed' trees and the 

 wolf trees cut. 



12. Keep fire out of the woods 

 absolutelv. 



Know These Facts About Cordwood 



One standard cord of well- 

 seasoned hickory, oak, beech, birch 

 hard maple, ash, elm, is approxi- 

 mately equal to one ton, 2000 

 pounds, of anthracite coal. 



It takes a cord and a half of 

 hemlock and soft maple and two 

 cords of cedar, poplar, spruce, 

 white pine, or basswood, to give the 

 same amount of heat. 



One cord of mixed wood, well 

 seasoned, equals in heating value 

 at least one ton (2000 pounds) of 

 average grade bituminous coai. 



A good manj- people purchase their 

 fuel wood without considering any 

 feature but the price. On that basis, 

 a man who phones for a "load of body 

 wood" at S12 a cord may really be 

 getting half the value of his neighbor 

 who personally sees that he secures 

 128 cubic feet of beech, hard maple, 

 ash, birch and elm, well seasoned. 



Some wood has been delivered in 

 Ontario cities this winter which, 

 considering its greenness and bad 

 quality, was costing the owner about 

 three times as much as anthracite 

 coal. 



A Community Wood-Chopping Day 



By Kenneth B. Welles in the ''Outlook.'' 



Winter has lost its worst shiver for 

 Old Lyme. We have ceased to shud- 

 der even if the Government should 

 commandeer the next, and the next, 

 and the next coal barge as it did the 

 last. We gave winter the warm 

 shoulder last Thursday when we had 

 our first Community Wood-Chopping 

 Day. 



It came about this way. A few 

 fortunate people had coal in their bins 

 and woodpiles by the back door, but 

 the rest of us realized that it was 

 either freeze of "hustle." Coal was 

 ordered, had been since last April, so 

 the two dealers assured us; but live 

 hundred miles turns coal into a pretty 

 cold proposition. Then we sought 

 the old reliable woodmen. Surely 

 they would not fail us — they never 

 had. But one was icing, one was tired 

 of hauling wood, one had moved into 



New London, and one had a few cords 

 of promises. Then we put our heads 

 together. 



The railway station, where behind 

 his wire grating sits Tommy Haynes, 

 agent and First Selectman of Old 

 Lyme, has been the birthplace of more 

 than one brilliant community idea. 

 There we went. 



Tommy w^as really serious. He 

 cussed the cold. He told how empty 

 his bin was. Then Fred Babcock, 

 our journalist, told how many times 

 he hadn't got wood. We were all 

 agreed on one thing: Lyme, even 

 though for two summers, the residence 

 of the President, was left out in the 

 cold, and was likely to stay so. 



Routing out Citizens 



Then the idea came. Why not 

 have a community wood-chopping 



