UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 863 



Contribution from the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRIE. Director 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



September 30, 1920 



FORESTRY LESSONS ON 

 HOME WOODLANDS 



By 



WILBUR R. MATTOON 



Extension Specialist in Forestry. Forest Service 



and 



ALYIN 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 Wood- 

 lands 9 



HI. Economic Value of me Forest 10 

 IV. Products From the Home 



Forest 13 



r.-.;r 

 Lesson V. Using Farm Timber .... 15 

 VI. Measuring and Estimating 



Timber 17 



VH. Marketing Farm Timber . . 



VIII. Protecting tV.e V.'oods . . . 



TX. Improving the Kome Forest by 



Cutting 



X. Growth of Trees and Forests . 

 XI. Forest Reproduction .... 

 XII. Woodlands and Farm Manage- 

 ment 



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