CZVCULAT No. 6610. swims srg 
November 1942 * Washington, D. C. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
LIBRARY 
RECEIVED 
DEC T9942 
Farm Forestry in the Lake States: 
An Economic Problem 
By RAPHAEL Zon, director, and WittIAmM A. DuERR,’ assistant forest economist, 
Lake States Forest Experiment Station? 
CONTENTS 
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TROVE WiOn Gs a een. Se ae LS 1 | Present and possible returns from farm woods__ 16 
Elements of the farm-forestry problem_____-_____ 2} Interrelations between forestry and farming_ 20 
Geographic belts and economic districts____.____ 6] Possibilities of cooperative management and 
Wiestenniprairie belG= 2 2r22 = sree ss 6 marketing 223 Peery ee eee ee ee ee 23 
Southern woodland belt_________-_-_-_____- 7 | Public participation in farm-forestry programs. 26 
INortherniforestabelgsse 2 ss. = S48 TAGR@utstandin sineed Sass eee see en eee ree 30 
Local problems summarized_______________- 12. }SUMMALy ates! Lt ee es er ee 33 
Farm woods as a source of timber supplies_____- 13 
FOREWORD 
A vast literature has come into existence on the subject of farm 
forestry in the United States. Most of it, however, is in the form of 
popular treatises on the physical improvement of the farm woods and 
on measuring and selling farm timber. Relatively few efforts have 
been made to analyze the economic problem of farm forestry, as an 
integral part of farm and regional economy. 
The value of the farm woods has been generally recognized 
as a 
1The authors make grateful acknowledgment to those who participated with them in 
the investigations on which this publication is based. Participants in the ease studies 
(for locations of study areas, see fig. 1), who except as indicated are or were members 
of the staff of the Lake States Forest Experiment Station, are the following: (1) Little- 
fork area—William A. Duerr and C. H. Simonds, and Adams, Minnesota State 
Forest Service; (2) Cloquet—Prof. J. H. Allison, University of Minnesota, and R. N. 
Cunningham; (3) Carver County—William A. Duerr and C. H. Simonds ; (4) Frog Creek 
area—Carl J. Holcomb, cooperating with F. B. Trenk, University of Wisconsin Extension 
Division; (5) LaCrosse area—H. F. Scholz and G H. Simonds; (6) cube area—FE. L. 
Lawson and C. H. Simonds, cooperating with F. Trenk and with C. V. Sweet, Forest 
Products Laboratory; (7) Antrim Goins Gaon J. Holcomb, and R. D. Jones, U. S. 
Forest Service Division of State and Private Forestry; (8) Eaton County—Prof. A. B. 
Bowman, Michigan State College, and Carl J. Holcomb. Statistics on forest areas, timber 
volumes, forest industries, and ownership are derived chiefly from the Forest Survey 
of the Lake States, conducted by the Lake States Forest Experiment Station under the 
direction of R. N. Cunningham. Data on farming and value of woodland products are 
based on information from the U. S. Census of Agriculture for 1935. Assistance in pre- 
paring this publication was furnished by personnel of the Work Projects Administration, 
oO. 665-71-3-69, Sponsor University of Minnesota, and O. P. 01-2-71-126, Sponsor 
Take ‘States Forest Exper iment Station. 
2 Maintained by the U. S. Department of Agriculture at University Farm, St. Paul, 
Minn., in cooperation with the University of Minnesota. 
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