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PART IV. 
History of Specific Woodlots. 
The task of looking up and getting the complete history 
of individual woodlots, in order to determine their increase 
in growth and value, proved to be less easy than was antici-~ 
pated. The reason for this is that few men have given 
much attention to the growth of any particular woodlot, 
and too, in very few cases are there any woodlots that 
have been let alone and allowed to grow unmolested for 
any length of time. So long as the average woodlot 
Purnishes enough firewood, fencing material, and an occa- 
sional stick of timber as required, no further notice is 
generally given it by the farmer. 
A majority of the woodlots consist of all aged trees, 
from saplings to rotten stubs. Only two examples that are 
at all representative of what the woodlots in Tompkins 
County can do, if allowed to grow, could be secured. In 
these cases, the period of growth was ascertained, and then 
the woodlots were cut off. The value of the timber was 
ascertained and the yearly increase in value per acre was 
thus calculated. 
Example I. 
In the township of Lansing, sixteen years ago a 
certain 6 acre tract of pasture became covered with bushes 
so that its value as pasture was impaired. The bush=lot 
was then four years old. The soil was Dunkirk stony clay. 
