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TIM HER TREES 



comes a constantly increasing source of pleasure and 

 profit. Unhappily, this crop is too little grown. Our 

 wood lots are rapidly disappearing, while the demand for 

 timber is increasing. Two and one half times as much 

 timber is annually consumed in America as is grown here. 

 Trees will grow on hillsides and in rocky places that 

 are unfit for general farming ; and, if care is taken to cut 



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only "ripe" trees and to plant new ones to take the 

 places of those cut, the wood lot on such a part of the 

 farm may give higher returns for labor spent upon it than 

 do the richest acres of the farm. Wood lots are valuable 

 to farmers indirectly as well as directly ; and both direct 

 and indirect value varies with the size, composition, and 

 location of the lot. 



231. Direct Values. Timber trees supply shingles, laths, 

 posts, poles, fence rails, railroad ties, staves, barrel hoops, 

 mine timber, firewood, pulp wood, distillation wood, and 



