FOREWORD. 



More than half of the area of farm holdings in Georgia 

 is in woods; and more than half of the wooded area 

 of the State is in farm holdings. The future of the for- 

 ests of the State depends largely on the attitude of the 

 farmers towards the wooded parts of their holdings. With a 

 view to influencing their attitude, lectures on forestery were 

 begun many years ago at the State College of Agriculture at 

 Athens by Dr. H. C. White. These lectures were incidental 

 to the courses in agricultural chemistry, forestry being taken 

 up in its bearing on soil conservation. When I was elected 

 Professor of Forestry in 1906, Dr. White turned oyer this 

 work to me. The lectures have been extended into a course 

 of three months for the One- Year students and a course of 

 half a year for the Seniors. The following text is an outline 

 of these courses. My chief purpose in writing it is to save a 

 part of the time spent by the students in taking and copying 

 lecture notes. But the problems discussed should also be of 

 interest to those who are managing farms; and while some 

 of them may not find all of the suggestions practicable, in 

 the conditions existing on their farms, thev will find that 

 a part of them are practicable, and as the market and other 

 conditions change with the industrial development of the 

 country, they will find that more of these suggestions can be 

 carried out. 



The teachers in the District Agricultural Schools and 

 other rural schools may find the book helpful in connection 

 with their courses in farm management or nature study. I 

 would remind these that the text is not intended to be ex- 

 haustive, and that it is even more important than in some 

 other subjects to supplement the text with the teacher's own 



