. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. THE FARMER'S WOOD LOT THE value of a wood lot to a farmer is this year more apparent than ever be- fore, in view of the very high price of fuel. So, during- these cold winter days, when the thermometer is at zero, and coal cannot be had at any price, and wood is being sold at prices almost ruinous to the buyer, some of us are con- scious of an unusual depth of gratitude to our fathers and grandfathers, who had wisdom enough to save for us a portion of the original forest as a wood lot ; and we have a keen sens
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. THE FARMER'S WOOD LOT THE value of a wood lot to a farmer is this year more apparent than ever be- fore, in view of the very high price of fuel. So, during- these cold winter days, when the thermometer is at zero, and coal cannot be had at any price, and wood is being sold at prices almost ruinous to the buyer, some of us are con- scious of an unusual depth of gratitude to our fathers and grandfathers, who had wisdom enough to save for us a portion of the original forest as a wood lot ; and we have a keen sense of comfort in drawing on our fuel supply from a source that is entirely out of the control of miners or operators. At a recent meeting of the Experimental Union, at Guelph, Mr. R. D. Craig, a grad- uate of the O. A. C. and a specialist in For- estry, stated that a fair esiimate of the average consumption of wood per family is from fifteen to twenty-five cords per annum. It is also estimated that a wood lot will give an annual crop of about three-quarters of a cord per acre. At that rate it would take from eleven to nineteen acres in wood land to keep the average family in fuel. If these conclusions are correct there is probably still a sufficient supply of timber to keep our people in fuel, provided the farmer's wood lot is properly cared for. But Mr. Craig believed there was ground for fear that, un- less the present methods are changed, the wood supply of Ontario will be practically. Fig. 2532. exhausted within ten years, and the whole province be dependent upon coal. With such a warning as this sounding in our ears, surely those of us who have upon our farms a wood lot, small or large, will place greater value upon it, and give it as good attention as we do any other part of the farm. Cattle should not be allowed to roam about in it and browse the young growth, which, if allowed to grow un- touched, would be a continual source of sup- ply of trees to replace the older tree
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