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Using Farm Timber 



Aim. — To learn how to make the best use of tarm timber. 



Sources of information —Farmers Bulletins 744, 1210, 1660, 1756, and 1989; 

 Leaflet 277; Circular 489; Miscellaneous Publication 358; publications of State 

 foresters and colleges of agriculture. 



Illustrative material. — Again a field trip will furnish the best illustrative material. 

 Note the height of the stumps where timber has been cut, the careless felling of 

 trees causing injury to young trees, the tops and large limbs left in the forest. 

 If field trips are not possible, pictures may be used to illustrate the points men- 

 tioned. 



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Figure 25. — Wasteful cutting of pine trees for pulpwood: The clearest and best timber has been left 

 to decay. It would have paid for the cutting of the trees. Two or three of the trees should have 

 been left to grow and reseed the land. 



Guides to study. — The right use of timber on the farm should begin at the time 

 the tree is cut. Waste of good timber in the woods is entirely too common nowa- 

 days when wood is high priced and getting scarcer. 



High stumps mean usually that the best timber in the tree is wasted (fig. 25). 

 Often the timber left in high stumps would cover the costs of logging. Sawlogs 

 can now be taken profitably from the tops which had to be left only a tew years 

 ago. Wherever possible the tops should be worked up into crossties, mine props, 

 or firewood. By careless felling ot trees much promising young timber is broken 

 and destroyed. 



High grade and valuable timber should not be used in places about the tarm 

 where less valuable woods will answer the purpose. Sometimes choice white oak, 

 worth 540 a thousand feet in the log for veneers, is split into fence posts, or black 

 walnut is used for farm gates. Parents or neighbors should be able to suggest 

 satisfactory substitutes for these purposes. 



