Canadian Forestry Journal, December, ipi6 



881 



The Farm Woodlot. 



(By B. P. Kirkland, University of 

 Washington-) 



The farm woodlot product of the 

 United States as a farm crop, accord- 

 ing to the 1909 census, was worth very 

 nearly 200 million dollars. The real 

 significance of this becomes clearer 

 when compared with the value of our 

 grain crops, only three of which reach- 

 ed this figure, wheat, corn, and oats. 



The forest can be grown on hill 

 sides, in gullies and on other poor land 

 which will never be worth clearing. A 

 profit may be made from the sale of 

 fuel, posts, railroad ties, pulp wood, 

 mine timber, lumber, etc., depending 

 upon the location of the tract and size 

 of the timber and the market demands. 

 If both thinnings and the final crop are 

 utilized 2^^ cords or 1,000 feet B.M. per 

 acre per annum or more may be se- 

 cured. The main aim should be to 

 produce small saw timber such as can 

 be sawn by inexpensive portable mills 

 right on the ground so as to furnish 

 rough lumber for farm building. 



The question now to be answered is 

 how much area of farm forest the aver- 

 age farm should have. I base this 

 quite largely on annual fuel consump- 

 tion. I believe if a farm home is heat- 

 ed as well as good city houses, as they 

 ■\yill be in time, it will take from 10 to 

 15 cords of fuel wood per annum. 

 Since this fuel wood should be a by- 

 product from the saw-timber forest I 

 should say the average farm should 

 have reserved not less than seven to 

 ten acres of young timber for this pur- 

 pose. Ten acres ought to supply all 

 fuel, posts, poles and in the long run 

 all saw timber needed on the average 

 farm. ' 



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