PART II. 
Present Condition of the Farm Woodlots. 
The present conditions of the farm woodlots in 
Tompkins County are, perhaps, quite representative of the 
conditions of the woodlots in many other counties in New 
York State. They might well be described as irregular, 
detached pieces of woodland, consisting of all sizes and 
second, a ae growths. (See Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4.) 
They occupy no definite position as regards soil or 
altitude. Steep hillsides and ravines are denuded of 
their forest covers, in certain sections, and in other 
sections more or less thrifty woodlots occupy good 
agricultural land. They have no definite relation to 
the general lay=-out of the farms. Composed,as they are, 
of dead, diseased, young, mature and weed trees all 
thrown in together, the valuable left to struggle for 
supremacy with the invaluable but hardy species, and in 
addition, frequently required to withstand the ravages 
of fire and stock, these remnants of the old virgin 
forests are evidence of their natural strength in with- 
standing the adverse natural and artificial conditions 
that tend towards their elimination. a 
Could the detrimental influences of mankind, fire, 
and stock be removed from the woodlots, Nature, in a few 
