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MISC. PUBLICATION 16 2, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



curriculum in the primary or advanced schools, or both. Courses 

 in forestry are also given at many of the State agricultural colleges. 



Thirty-five States and Hawaii and Puerto Rico have extension 

 foresters. These forstery specialists are in most cases attached to the 

 extension departments of he agricultural colleges and work with the 

 county agricultural agents and farmers in much the same way as do 

 the extension specialists in other lines of agriculture. Forestry infor- 

 mation and advice can therefore be obtained in nearly every State, 

 either from the extension forester or the State forestry department. 



The passage of the Clarke-McNary Act gave an added impetus 

 to State forestr} 7 work and many States are now cooperating with 

 the United States Forest Service under this law. Thirty-eight 

 have cooperative protective systems for the prevention and sup- 

 pression of forest fires, and 39 States and the Territories of Puerto 

 Rico and Hawaii are growing and distributing planting stock, with 



Figure 17. — A Forest Nursery in Michigan. 



the cooperation of the Federal Government, for the purpose of 

 establishing windbreaks, shelter belts, and farm woodlands upon 

 denuded or nonforested lands. 



FARM FORESTRY 



More than one fifth of all forest land in this country is con- 

 tained in farm woodlands. A farm woodland is a valuable asset 

 to its owner. Properly handled, it will give him a supply of sale- 

 able products, such as saw logs, poles, piling, pulpwood, posts, 

 crossties, and cordwood, in addition to wood for fuel, fencing, and 

 the many other needs' of the farm. This means not only a tangible 

 income such as may be derived from any other farm crop, but a 

 saving in the outlay of money for the upkeep of the place. And, 

 too, the woods may utilize and make productive those parts of the 

 farm not suitable for other crops, the rough, steep, or rocky lands 

 (fig. 18). 



Most of the woodlands found on farms are of natural forest 

 growth. Some of them have been planted, especially in the prairie 



