Show URGES STUDY OF FARM FORESTRY Department I of Agriculture l Says Understanding Subject Is Helpful Washington ra D D. C. C Jan 25 Ait An understanding un un- of or tho elementary principles principles ples plea of or farm forestry will wll enable the farmer to market his timber far more profitably bly than Is done one on tho the average a farm accord according Ins Ins- to the thc news service Ico of the department of a agriculture In tho the southern stat states all and in man many other sections of or the countz country high grade e logs of or such trees as oak oale yellow yel yol- ollow ol low poplar red gum Ium a ash h. h cherry an and black walnut can usually be sold In carload lots direct to manufacturing m plants even en though these are located at some sonic distance r Lt Largo o quantities of pine arc are cut and I. I sol sold b by southern farmers for paper pulp wood Yellow poplar l an and cottonwood cotton cotton- wood re red gum tupelo tupolo etc are arc u used etl for Cor the tho same purpose according td to forestry forestry for for- estr estry specialists of oC the department of or ora a agriculture Pulp woo wood is sol sold b by bythe bythe the tho cord and the prices usually ran range o. o from rom about 4 I to Iii fi for pi pine pino no an and 5 to toJO top JO t p for Cot poplar cottonwood etc etc- Hall Hall- roat road ties have hn long been a a. standard t n farm rm timber pro product As a n. rule however how how- ever tho the price represents only fair W wages WIS IS for Cor cutting hewing hewing- An and haulIng hauling haul- haul Ing InS with little return for the timber Umber it itself In this connection It Is Interesting to learn that experiments ore fire about to In ho lie conducted hy by the Ne ew York State ii nf T.- T. or tr v ProC IT 11 c. c ll Boyles cS to determine ct rJ m whether 1 ih r the tho farm i woodlot can cart be ma made o to pay by producing producing pro pro- a n salable crop Prote Professor sor Boles Boyles Is asking owners of or woodlots near Syracuse to turn over or to his stu students their acreage the owner to lo get tho the profits an and the students to do o the thereal thereal real wor work as well as tho the planning This work will begin as soon as ns six tracts can cnn bo be secured for or five years yearn Tho college will through Its utilization utilization tion thou sen service Ice assist the owner In finding finding find find- ing a market and his only expense willbe will willbe be the transportation of or the timber to town while the students get bet practical practical heal logging experience as well as the Iho opportunity to prove the operating possibility of oC farm Carm woo woodlots lots on a n. commercial com coin mercial basis |