Archive image from page 357 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 23 Fig. 426. Steep rocKy siope supporting forest growth, but unfit lor agriculture. Absolute forest land. rent-producer, if properly used, than could have been supposed a short time ago. This rise in prices, to be sure, affects mainly the better kinds and cuts. In some regions, as in Massachusetts, where the good timber is cut out and poor fuel-wood is plen- tiful, there is naturally
Archive image from page 357 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 23 Fig. 426. Steep rocKy siope supporting forest growth, but unfit lor agriculture. Absolute forest land. rent-producer, if properly used, than could have been supposed a short time ago. This rise in prices, to be sure, affects mainly the better kinds and cuts. In some regions, as in Massachusetts, where the good timber is cut out and poor fuel-wood is plen- tiful, there is naturally no such rise noticeable,— a good inducement to pay attention to the woodlot and to improve the character of its product. One point that the average farmer raises against timber-cropping is that it takes time to grow wood, and one must wait twenty, thirty, forty or more years before one can harvest. This is true. Never- theless, we insist that it is good policy to bestow the patience required, considering that this crop is frequently growing on soil otherwise useless ; that each year it grows nearer to a realizing value, and hence increases the value of the farm, even though it may not admit of harvest,—and all this without, any expense, or, at most, very little. Moreover, with a woodlot already in existence, the time at which the results of improvement in the methods of its treatment are reaped are by no means so distant. The response in increased incre- ment will be soon experienced; with little expendi- ture, the rate of growth may be doubled and the result reaped within five or six years. This is one of the places where, again and again, mere care in the use has produced astonishing results. On a well-regulated farm of 160 acres, at least forty to fifty acres could be advantageously kept under wood, even if only the home consumption is to be satisfactorily supplied by the annual growth, and the waste land to be made productive. Importance of the woodlot. As to the impor
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