ANY farmers are getting a part of their yearly cash income 
from timber grown on their farms. In hard years, due to 
short crops of food or cotton, the sale of crossties, pulpwood, poles, 
firewood, or saw logs has kept the family from financial distress and 
the banks and other business institutions from closing their doors. 
The growing of timber on farm land not suitable or not needed 
for field crops or pasture is now generally recognized as a profitable ~ 
farm enterprise. 
Timber will grow on the less fertile soils and does not require 
fertilizer or labor. It is the net profit that counts, and more and 
more farmers are coming to realize that wood and timber rank high 
as cash crops. One such farmer in North Carolina, a man 74 years 
old, while attending a timber-growing demonstration exclaimed, 
“T’m getting old enough to grasp new ideas.” In the words of a 
Texas farmer, “ Our farm problem to-day doesn’t end at the barn- 
lot gate or at the water tap.” 
The right use of the ax and saw is an important part of good woods 
management. If managing the farm woodland successfully means 
anything, it means using or marketing the product wisely. Owners 
of timberland will be interested in the experiences of farmers who 
by good methods of cutting, using, and marketing, have made their 
woodlands profitable. 
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Issued September, 1930. 
