CHAPTER XXVIII 



THE HOME WOOD LOT 



The farm home is not complete without a wood lot or shelter 

 belt "of trees (Fig. 254). Homes in the prairie states, as well as 

 those in the naturally wooded regions, should have a block of trees 

 permanently growing for the shelter and products which it yields. 

 The densely populated countries of the Old World find the princi- 

 ples of forestry worth following in the maintenance of wood lots. 

 Wood products are so valuable that we ought not to continually 



Fig. 254. — Trees, vines and shrubs not only add to the beauty of the farm home but the 

 shade insures comfort to people and livestock. 



neglect their production and ruthlessly destroy our native forests 

 without doing something to conserve and replenish the products 

 which we need so much. 



Products of the Wood Lot. — Wood lots in general yield many 

 products valuable on the farm, in the manufactures and in com- 

 merce. The following products have been enumerated : Nuts and 

 fruits, sugar and syrup (Fig. 255), quinine, salicin, oils of sassafras, 

 eucalyptus, beechnut and olive, matches, tooth picks, clothes 

 pins, pencils, penholders, handles, baskets, shoe pegs, wooden 

 dishes, wood alcohol, acetates, wood tar, potash, turpentine, resin, 

 creosote, pitch, cork, tannic acid, charcoal, spruce gum, lamp 

 black, excelsior, lumber, posts, poles, ties, fuel, and pulp. 



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