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BULLETIN 863, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



A farmer may not have sufficient white-oak saw logs or hickory spoke 

 blocks to pay to ship. 



Practical exercises. — What timber is being sold in the district? 

 Who is buying it? To what place is it being shipped? What stand- 

 ing timber is sold in the district? What cooperative shipping of 

 timber do you find? Visit a wood yard and note methods of hand- 

 ling the wood and get prices per cord on the different sizes of wood. 



Correlations. — Abundant exercises in arithmetic will be suggested 

 by the prices of timber and amounts sold. If a price list of timber 

 and its products at the final market can be had, some interesting 

 problems can be worked out by comparisons with local prices. 



For a language exercise make a report on the various kinds of 

 timber marketed, prices paid, methods of transportation, and markets. 



Fig. 11. — Oak spoke blocks, piling, and cross ties ready for shipment 



Lesson VIII. PROTECTING THE WOODS 



Problem. — To learn the best methods of protecting woodlands, and 

 to discover the kind and extent of injury or loss due to forest fires. 



Sources of information. — Farmers' Bulletins 173, 1177, and 1188; 

 Forestry Circular 205; Department Bulletins 308 and 787; Year- 

 book Separate 548; State publications. The United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and the agricultural colleges will be glad to 

 render assistance by identifying and furnishing information concern- 

 ing various forest insects and plants. 



Illustrative material.— Victmies of forest fires, burnt over wood- 

 lands, forest rangers, their camps and equipment, copies of the 

 United States- Forest Regulations, and charts for fire prevention 

 will make excellent illustrative material. Pictures of trees damaged 

 by insects or fungi, samples of damaged wood, samples of insecticides 

 and materials used to prevent insects from damaging trees should 

 also be used. 



