STATUS AND VALUE OF FARM WOODLOTS. 19 



Under proper farm management land not suitable for cultivation 

 or pasturage ought to be kept in timber and made to contribute to 

 the farm income. While it is unavoidable that financial .stringency 

 or exceptional!}' high prices will sometimes occasion the sale of 

 woodlots which might otherwise be directly or indirectly a source 

 of permanent income to the farm, it is too often the case that the 

 owners are easily tempted bjr such offers and do not stop to weigh 

 them against the greater advantage that can perhaps be secured in 

 the long run by leaving the woodlot standing. 



Statistics showing the actual number of farms which have wood- 

 lots are not available. In the thickly settled regions there are many 

 small farms, and some of fair size, which have no woodlots, but this 

 becomes less and less the case with remoteness from the more densely 

 populated centers. At the same time, the average size of the wood- 

 lots, obtained by dividing the total woodlot area by the total number 

 of farms, increases from the least to the most wooded farm regions. 

 This is shown in Table 6, which gives the average woodlot acreage 

 per farm in different States and divisions for 1880 and 1910. The 

 average proportion of farm land wooded is shown for the same years 

 in Table 7. 



