FORESTRY CLUBS FOR YOUNG PE OPLE 3 
Protection of New Hampshire Forests, which for several years has 
made available in the different counties prizes to the winners of the 
various forestry contests. 
Forestry was adopted as a standard project by the New Hampshire 
4-H organization in 1924, and enrollment in the forestry clubs has 
FIGURE 1.—4-H CLUB MEMBERS ENGAGE IN FOREST WORK 
A, Preparing to plant pine seedlings; B, forestry club members scaling trees; C, setting out pine 
seedlings; D, studying tree growth with extension forester; E, weeding bed of 1-year northern 
white pine seedlings. 
steadily increased. For the project year from October, 1926, to 
October, 1927, over 500 boys and girls enrolled for forestry. As a 
result 266 acres of woodland were improved, over 400 wood collec- 
tions made, and 166,000 pine trees planted. The 4—H forestry work 
in New Hampshire includes wood lot improvement, tree and wood 
