FORESTRY LESSONS ON HOME WOODLANDS. 



By Wilbur It. Mattoon, Extension Specialist in Forestry, Forest Service, and 

 Alvin Dille, Specialist in Agricultural Education, States Relations Service. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 1 



Sources of information 2 



The survey 2 



Illustrative material 3 



The home project 3 



Lesson I. Forest trees and forest 



types 4 



II. Location and extent of 



woodlands 9 



III. Economic value of the for- 

 est 10 



IV. Products from the home 



forest 13 



Page. 



Lesson V. Using farm timber 15 



VI. Measuring and estimating 



timber 17 



VII. Marketing farm timber 18 



VIII. Protecting the woods 20 



IX. Improving the home forest 



by cutting 23 



X. Growth of trees and for- 

 ests 25 



XI. Forest reproduction 26 



XII. Woodlands and farm man- 

 agement 32 



Supplement 34 



INTRODUCTION. 



The right handling of the home forest has come to be a matter of 

 recognized importance in farm management. Farming touches for- 

 estry at a number of different points. The farm requires timber 

 for the building and repair of houses, barns, sheds, fences, and tele- 

 phone lines. It needs more or less wood for fuel, and it should have 

 some woodland also for protecting the soil against erosion on steep 

 slopes, for shelter for growing crops and live stock against the hot, 

 dry winds of midsummer, the cold winds of winter, and likewise for 

 the comfort of man, and the home of game animals. 



A farm without some woods is less attractive as a place to live 

 and usually less valuable than one with at least a little woodland and 

 some forest trees scattered about. Thus woodlands have a place 

 both in the management of the farm and in the development of the 

 community. 



The lessons which follow present the subject of farm forestry from 

 the standpoint of the important local kinds of forest trees and their 

 uses, the proper location of woodlands on the farm, their economic 

 value to the farm, the different farm timber products, measuring and 

 marketing timber, utilizing timber rightly on the farm, protecting 

 and improving woodlands, and planting young timber. A knowl- 

 edge of farm forestry, applied along simple lines, should make farm- 



