THE WOODLOT IN RELATION TO FARM MANAGEMENT 43 



on the farm and in pasture or crops which the owner believes 

 should be in woods. The foregoing questions comprise prac- 

 tically all the information requested. 



Of the sixteen areas selected for field work, seven were com- 

 pleted the past field season. They are as follows: northeast- 

 ern Connecticut, northern Vermont, southeastern Pennsyl- 

 vania, central Indiana, central Piedmont region in North Car- 

 olina, the coastal plain at the junction of the fall line in north- 

 ern South Carolina, and central Tennessee. The nine areas 

 which remain are distributed as follows: northern Alabama, 

 northern Louisiana, southern Missouri, southern Indiana, 

 northern Indiana, northern Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, 

 eastern Iowa, and southeastern Nebraska. 



These areas are confined to a county and are carefully se- 

 lected for soil, topography, timber conditions, type of farm- 

 ing, and general economic conditions. The Connecticut lo- 

 cality, Windham County, is in the heart of a manufacturing 

 district whose power is largely furnished by waterfalls along 

 the stream courses. The population of the county is 48,361 

 and markets are good, both local and distant. According to 

 the census 37.6 per cent of the area is wooded and the present 

 survey of a portion shows the percentage of wooded area as 

 35.3. For the entire State of Connecticut the percentage of 

 farm homes to total homes is 10.6 per cent and is decreasing 

 slightly; 31.2 per cent of the owned farm homes in the coun- 

 ty are encumbered, and 13.4 per cent of the farm homes are 

 rented. The land is generally rough and stony with many 

 granite ledges. The usual northern hardwoods are found, of 

 which chestnut forms a large proportion. White pine occurs 

 in the northern part. Fuel wood, lumber, ties, fenceposts, and 

 poles are the principal products. Dairying is one of the im- 

 portant farm industries and pasture is in demand near the 

 towns. 



The Vermont locality, Franklin County, is much the same 

 general type as the Connecticut, with the exception that there 

 is very little manufacturing. Dairying is one of the princi- 

 pal industries and maple sugar making furnishes work in the 

 early spring. In the part of the county where the informa- 

 tion was collected the farm land is about the average for the 



