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season of the year wMch is usually known as the slack 

 season. 



The growing of hickory for various purposes, such 

 as hoops, poles and material for wagons and vehicle 

 manufacture, also offers itself as a suggestion of the 

 manner in which a woodlot on a farm may be utilized for 

 the actual value of the product, at the same time that 

 it is improving the soil condition or regenerating abso- 

 lutely worthless land. Hickory of decided commercial 

 value may be raised in from five to ten years, and, man- 

 aged as a sprout forest, will produce a valuable produc- 

 tion indefinitely. The raising of forest trees for produc- 

 ing nuts is another phase of the matter which should be 

 carefully considered. At the present time nuts are an 

 increasingly valuable product on the market, and there 

 are a number of forest species which produce these, such 

 as walnut, hickory, pecan and chestnut. 



From this brief summing up of the matter, it is clear 

 that not only may the forests be the means of adding 

 distinctly to the value of the farm from an agricultural 

 standpoint, but it may be also made to pay for itself dur- 

 ing the regenerative period. 



OPPOETUNITIES FOR BEEF PEODTJCTION IN 

 KENTUCKY. 



By Edwin S. Good, Head Department of Animal 

 Husbandry (Beef cattle, sheep and swine), Ken- 

 tucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Lexington, 

 Kentucky. 



In many respects Kentucky is a State happily situ- 

 ated on the map for the production of beef cattle and its 

 marketing under favorable conditions. The climate is 

 medium between the long cold winters of the North and 

 the long hot summers of the South, and such as to give 

 the farmer a long growing season between frosts. Her 

 different regions, though opposite in physical features, 

 give her the opportunities for varied agriculture. Her 

 location near the southern states gives her farmers the 

 benefit of purchasing their cottonseed meal, one of the 



