THE WOODLOT 35 



The Ideal Form of the Small Woodlot.— The ideal form 

 of woodlot for supplying a farm with wood products would 

 be one from which the owner could obtain at any time trees 

 of any size or kind needed. It should furnish the farm with 

 cordwood for fuel, sawlogs to yield lumber, fenceposts or rails 

 for building or mending fences, or small sticks for the tem- 

 porary mending of farm implements. It should contain trees 

 having heavy, hard wood suitable for fire wood, trees having 

 light, smooth, easily worked wood for construction purposes, 

 and trees having durable wood for fence posts. The woodlot 

 that would supply all these different sizes of trees at any time 

 would have an uneven aged mixed stand of timber. The trees 

 would be of many different kinds and of all sizes and ages. 



Each of the different forms of woodlots will demand a 

 different treatment. In order to manage them properly one 

 must have a knowledge of how woodlots are established and 

 how they develop, and understand the laws according to which 

 trees grow together. 



