824 TIMBER TREES 



HOME EXERCISES 



1. Determine the names, and count the number, of timber trees 

 on your farm. To determine the names you should use a book like 

 Apgar's Trees of North America. Which timber tree do you con- 

 sider the most valuable ? 



2. Determine the names of all the different kinds of lumber in use 

 at your home, in the barn, house, outbuildings, fences, and machinery. 



3. What kind of wood makes the best fuel ? Which splits most 

 readily ? Can you estimate the age of your oldest tree? 



SUGGESTIONS 



1. Arbor Day exercises are helpful in stimulating interest in the 

 value of trees. In nearly every state a day or two is annually desig- 

 nated by some official as Arbor Day. Suggestions for its proper obser- 

 vance are usually furnished free by the state or national government. 

 Care must be taken not to plant too many trees or too much shrubbery 

 around the schoolhouse or home. Too much is perhaps as objection- 

 able as too little. 



2. Pupils should be encouraged to bring to school the leaves, 

 flowers, and fruit of important timber trees for drawing, identifica- 

 tion, and study. It is better to know the value and uses of the dif- 

 ferent trees than merely their names. 



REFERENCES 



Manual of Trees. Sargent. 

 Trees of North A merica. Apgar. 

 Farmers 1 Bulletins. 



134. Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds. 



173. Primer of Forestry. 



275. Suggestions for the Management of the Farm Wood Lot. 



711. The Care and Improvement of the Wood Lot 



