Archive image from page 362 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 Fig. 442. White oak{Qtifreus alba). Fig. 443. Red oak {Qiiercus rubra). Factors in Timber Production. Figs. 424-428. By Raphael Zon. Although the growing of wood, inasmuch as it must make use of the soil, is a part of agricultural production, yet it has many dis- tinctive features which justify discussing it independently. A clear understanding of the way in which wood crops grow,
Archive image from page 362 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 Fig. 442. White oak{Qtifreus alba). Fig. 443. Red oak {Qiiercus rubra). Factors in Timber Production. Figs. 424-428. By Raphael Zon. Although the growing of wood, inasmuch as it must make use of the soil, is a part of agricultural production, yet it has many dis- tinctive features which justify discussing it independently. A clear understanding of the way in which wood crops grow, and of the factors involved in their production, is essential to an in- telligent treatment of the far- mer's woodlot. Three factors are invariably present in the production of all raw materials,— nature, labor, capital; and it is the way in which these factors are combined in the production of timber crops that distinguishes the latter from all other agricultural crops. While these factors have been brought out in the pre- ceding article, it is impor- tant that we here emphasize certain features, that we may more clearly compre- hend their relation to forest production, and hence to the adaptation of the woodlot to the farm scheme. Nature. In no other agricultural crop does nature play so prominent a part as in the f production of wood crops. In 11// raising field crops the farmer ,i\li :if' deals, as a rule, with annual plants, tender and highly plas- tic, which have had their original characteristics radi- cally changed in accordance with the needs and wishes of man. In the production of timber, one deals with tree - species, perennial, wild plants, yielding with ?--- difficulty to human influ- =?s-- ence. The long period, often more than a lifetime, required by trees to grow from seed to maturity, prevents man from leaving his impress on them ; while the short cycle of development of agricul- tural plants offers opportunity, year after year, to mould and adapt them to t
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