144 



The Farm Woodlot 



revenue. It is often the case that a farmer is able to 

 spend some of his own time or the time of some of his farm 



hands in this 

 kind of work to 

 very good ad- 

 vantage with- 

 out any par- 

 ticular sacrifice 

 of the regular 

 farm routine 

 work. The op- 

 erations may 

 be carried on 

 in the winter 

 time or when 

 there is a scar- 

 city, for a short 

 period of time, 

 of the ordinary 

 farm work. 

 Under such cir- 

 cumstances, 

 thinning oper- 

 ations cannot 

 be considered 

 expensive and 

 the value of a 

 future crop of 

 timber should 

 be considered 

 Fig. 40. — Hardwood grove properly thinned. rather than re- 



