SELLING WOODLOT PRODUCTS ON MICHIGAN FARMS. 



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The table shows that where the woodlots are largest, farming is least 

 important; land values are lowest; the percentage of improved farm 

 land is least ; and the value received for woodlot products on the average 

 farm is greatest. Just the reverse is true of the regions with the smallest 

 proportion of wooded farm land! The figures given in the last line of 

 the table bring out forcibly the importance of the woodlot in the dif- 

 ferent regions. They show that while woodlot products comprised 6.4 

 per cent of the value of all farm incomes in the entire State, the wood- 

 lot income from region IV was over a fifth and that from region V over 

 a fourth of the total farm income in these counties. 



How the growth of farming has affected Michigan woodlots is shown 

 in Table 15, which gives the actual acreage in farm woodland in 1910, 

 and the per cent of increase or decrease in farm woodland area in the 

 thirty years from 1880 to 1910. 



't^ Alger county, with 68.6 per cent of its farm land wooded, was not organized in 1880, and no comparison is possible. 



The deduction which this table appears to justify is that for the 

 present, at least, the farm woodland area can be expected to increase 

 only in those regions where farming has not yet occupied large areas. 

 Elsewhere the decrease will be rapid as niore and more of the woodlot 

 area is claimed for cultivation. 



