. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. FOREST PLANTING IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. By C. R. Tillotson, Forest Examiner. OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOREST PLANTING. Nearly every farm includes one or more pieces of land which can be more profitably planted to timber than to an agricultural crop. Such an area may be some small corner not easily accessible, or else a piece of poor, sandy, swampy, or worn-out land, or it may be an old woodlot in poor condition and not fully stocked with growing timber. The 1910 census shows that the average farm in the
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. FOREST PLANTING IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. By C. R. Tillotson, Forest Examiner. OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOREST PLANTING. Nearly every farm includes one or more pieces of land which can be more profitably planted to timber than to an agricultural crop. Such an area may be some small corner not easily accessible, or else a piece of poor, sandy, swampy, or worn-out land, or it may be an old woodlot in poor condition and not fully stocked with growing timber. The 1910 census shows that the average farm in the United States contains 138 acres, of which 75 are re- corded as improved and 63 as unimproved, the latter consisting of "woodland" and "all other unimproved ; 1 The woodland and other unim- proved land covers the enormous total area of 400,346,000 acres. Of this nearly 245,000,000 acres are in the States east of Texas and the Kocky. Mountains, about 175,000,000 acres of which are in wood- lots. There remain about 70,000,000 acres of unforested and un- improved land in this eastern portion of the country, most of it best suited for growing timber. This area will be reduced by draining the swamp lands potentially adapted to agricultural crops, but will be increased by the addition of lands becoming worn out and unfit for growing field crops. Since 1S70 in New England the proportion of improved farm land has gradually declined as follows: In 1870, per cent; in 1880, i "Woodland" includes all land covered with natural or planted forest trees which produce, or later may produce, firewood or other forest products. " All other unimproved lands " includes brush land, rough or stony land, swampy land, and any other not improved or in forest Note.—This bulletin is of interest to landowners throughout the northeastern United States, as shown by the shaded portion of the sketch map on this page. 60370°—Bull. 153—15 1 Fig. 1. -Sketch
Size: 1982px × 1261px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectagriculture, bookyear
