. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 316 FORESTS FORESTS. Fig. 429. American larch (Larix Fig. 430. Arborvitze {Thm/a occidentalis). This windbreak benefit, as well as that of regu- lating water and soil conditions, is secured by proper location of forest areas. While, therefore, in the first place, soils and situations unfit for farm purposes are to be selected for the woodlot, to secure its bene- ficial influences may make other disposition desirable. Factors in woodlot maTiagement. Choice o
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 316 FORESTS FORESTS. Fig. 429. American larch (Larix Fig. 430. Arborvitze {Thm/a occidentalis). This windbreak benefit, as well as that of regu- lating water and soil conditions, is secured by proper location of forest areas. While, therefore, in the first place, soils and situations unfit for farm purposes are to be selected for the woodlot, to secure its bene- ficial influences may make other disposition desirable. Factors in woodlot maTiagement. Choice of species.—While we speak of a timber crop as one, there is quite as much variety possible in timber crops as in farm crops. Not only are there many different kinds of wood, each possessing distinct qualities and fit for distinct emplojTnent, but there are dif- ferences of treatment which pro- duce differences of There are the conifers,—pines, spruces, hemlocks, firs, larch, cedar and the like,—which furnish building ma- terials and grow from seed only (with few exceptions), requiring a long time to make suitable size for the purpose for which they are best fitted; and there are the broad-leaf trees of great variety, hard and soft woods, fit for a variety of purposes, and often becoming available for use sooner than the con- ifers, capable of reproduction by sprouting from the stump (coppice) as well as by seed. Whether it be in the man- agement of an established woodlot or the starting of a new plantation, a choice of species and method of treat- ment must be made from the first, with the object clearly in view that the crop is to serve. Limitations as to output.—We have started to consider the woodlot as destined, in the first place, to supply domes- tic needs of fuel and small-dimen- sion material; but the question may arise whether it could not be managed with a view to supplying the general market. By general market we mean the requirements of sawmills and
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