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generations, would make them as healthy and vigorous 
as they were before artificial conditions were brought 
to bear upon then. In default of this natural 
revitalization, it remains for man, for the farmers who 
own the woodlots, to remove or remedy these undesirable 
and detrimental conditions and to intelligently put into 
practice, practical methods of forestry that will tend 
to improve present conditions. y 
It is a deplorable yet self evident fact that no= ae 
where in Tompkins County have the farmers or timber 
owmers done anything toward making a study of the means 
for improving their woodlots, or in putting into operation 
any intelligent and practical methods of caring for them 
as they exist today, although the average farmer or other 
owner of woodland is well aware that the prices of all 
kinds of forest products have pune tee rapidly within 
eS ee es eee 
are planting locust and catalpa trees in certain parts of 
Tene county, as will be noted later, there still remains 
'that element of selfish indifference regarding future 
“disposition of the woodlots. 
