Show interest boys in managing trees frees club members being taught how to handle pine wood lots on farm ared by th I 1 he 11 sted att department of f club boys it in i new hampshire have demonstrated uLli a junior exten blon forestay project that trees maybe may be looked upon uni and llian aged us ua a crop it given attention under the lie direction of a forestry expert A report received by tile he united states department of agriculture states that club boys ore are being tile management of pine wood lots through handling a quarter of nn an acre up to an acro acre on the family farn the work has been received iab anth enthusiasm and has served its purpose very effectively it convicts convis ts of two general types of activity planting and thinning times the he latter work Is referred to us is improvement cutting or weeding different cuttings cutting it was found necessary to emphasize and call attention of club bembe irs to the different types of improvement cuttings and to prepare definite in both written and oral tor for each type each bach lot presents different conditions and tho the solution of problems which require a personal visit of the junior extension agent this limits tho the number 0 of f club members who can undertake the file work until a forestry specialist can be added to the extension staff the boys who take part in the tree planting division are arc expected to plant at least a fourth of an acre between march I 1 and june I 1 this year the extension agent will supervise the pur chase and planting of tile the trees kach bach club member Is to report the lie number of trees living on october 15 improvement cutting improvement cutting deals with three groups of arees young pine under ten years of age those between ten and thirty years old and those over thirty years tho the object in the first group Is IB to free the young group from overtopping over topping older or un desirable trees lit in the second to con cen growth on the more valuable trees and in the third typo type to in crease tre me diameter din meter growth of the trees and the total production of the stand thirty ono boys enrolled in the planting work last year and met bet out over seedlings some of these were planted by boys on town loud land some borne on national reservations and others on the home farm wood lot several boys enrolled for thinning the planting work received more popular support and public praise than the woodlot wood lot manage management nent phase to give five tills thin new project a start the society for the of new hampshire eliare forests has offered generous money prizes for a state and county forestry contest which started this past full foil six counties count len have entered and a fresh impetus Is being given the adlor forestry work the contest will extend until next october |