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The Farm Woodlot 



The prevailingly unprofitable farm lands 



In some cases, there are farms on which all the land is 

 of a high tillage quality, too valuable as a crop-producer 

 to be devoted to other purposes. There would be no place 



for a woodlot. But even under these conditions, if they 

 extend over a large enough area, a point will be reached 



Fig. 2. — Two crops — maize, and the farm forest. 



at which the products of the woodlot will become so high- 

 priced that it will pay to raise forest trees on a certain 

 proportion of that good cultivable soil. That is, the prod- 

 ucts of the woodlot would be more valuable than the 

 other crops that could be raised on that same land. 

 Should the area devoted to woodlots become too large, 



