. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). I032 Rural School Leaflet. >->5s?. O^^^*' WHAT FORESTRY IS Herbert A. Smith Forestry is the art of making forests serve man's purposes to best advan- tage. For example: A farmer owns a woodlot. From it he gets fuel, both for his own home and to sell in the neighboring town; also fence-posts and other material for use about the place. Some- times he cuts and sells hardwood ties and tele- graph poles for the rail- road
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). I032 Rural School Leaflet. >->5s?. O^^^*' WHAT FORESTRY IS Herbert A. Smith Forestry is the art of making forests serve man's purposes to best advan- tage. For example: A farmer owns a woodlot. From it he gets fuel, both for his own home and to sell in the neighboring town; also fence-posts and other material for use about the place. Some- times he cuts and sells hardwood ties and tele- graph poles for the rail- road, or spruce logs to the sawmill. How can he use his woodlot to best advan- tage? If he goes on year after year cutting out the finest trees of the most valuable kinds, his woodlot will be getting poorer all the while. The trees which he does not want will tend to take the place of those which he cuts, and in course of time he will have a ragged, badly stocked woodlot, with unsound, branchy or worthless trees. Hardwoods or balsam fir will come in instead of spruce; dogwood, red oak, and birch instead of hickory and white oak. What should he do? A satisfactory answer can be given only in the light of information about the trees. Suppose white oak wood brings the highest price. Should the farmer try to grow white oak in preference to other trees? That depends partly on how fast it grows. Where it grows very slowly, some less valuable but faster-growing wood will pay Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?], 1900-1910. James B. Lyon, State printer)
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