Show Grazed Gr aze W Woodlot l Doomed Doom d to o De Death ea th I. I Furnishes Poor Pasture and Forest Is Headed for Childless Old Age lilt ff gritting grazing Is permitted J continuous continuous- continuously ly 11 In a woodlot It Is doomed to n a childless le s old aid age and und death declared Prot Prof Si N N. N Spring of the forestry department nt at ut Cornell university speaking at nt Farm and Home week at Ithaca N N. N Y V. on the dangers and losses front from grazing done by hy farm stock In wood lots In RI the long run grazing Is more de- de e to 10 hardwood forests on New Yang tale stale farms than Is any form tore of logging Forests may Indeed indeed In in- deed deteriorate under careless cut cut- hut hul If fire file and grazing are kept out mat n a now new growth at ot least of some Somme III Ii 1 ii i value results No such suh hope can be extended to woodlots l grazed Ift Little le se sprang r up nat naturally naty in the forest t 1 art are Hie nia next gen of timber Umber tr trees es Grazing orals mals browse len trees hark back to the ground and HI In the lie ca case e of conifers they browse off shoots and needles as ns well and trample and deform deform deform de de- de- de form the little er e evergreens Of course a n few tew may escape but hut not enough h hI grow up to prevent woodlot race rac I I Hopeless Woodlot A heavily lly grazed d woodlot was gIven given given I en nn an ap ni ut name by hy nn an Investigator In Ohio some years yearn Ir ago who clas classed ed edI I It as ns the hoi hOl eless I ss woodlot In which matured trees defective culls and weed trees formed the stand and und grass was on the ground beneath lIe He struck a 11 when he stated that If the owner tries to combine pasture and woodlot neither will wUl be first class but If the owner owner divides s them he lie will have both a n posture pasture and an nn excellent excellent ex ex- woodlot Grazing slowly but surely changes conditions more rapidly if many uni- uni mals mats occupy the woodlot The soil st-II Is trampled and packed roots of shat rooted low trees become exposed and andas andas as ns mature and trees come cOllie comedown comedown down or are ar cut with none to replace them the litter disappears and grass replaces it These grasses growing In the partial shade lack Inck nutritive lve value alue and steal food and moisture from the trees As the forest grows more open the wind r ray Iny ny uproot trees and there are no younger ones to fill the gap gnp and so the process goes hoes on The ground loses fertility being heing robbed of Its litter that releases plant food In decaying Losses Are Larger Grazing of woodlots lots Is beneficial from flom the owners owner's stan standpoint In furg furnIshIng furnishing fur fur- shade to the animals and und some food hut but he loses the possibility of good returns from he the woodlots In exchange for relatively small h benefits A sense common-sense procedure would heto heto he heto to fence oil ofT the woodlot excepting such a portion as will afford the shelter shel slier ter required The owner should decide decide decide de de- cide what proportion he needs forwood forwood for forwood wood production and manage e It as Intensively intensively In in- as he would any other crop ClOp The question naturally arises whether a n woodlot will come hack hucl after being grazed There are plenty of examples At Cornell ornell In the man management management of the university woodlots an nn experiment In it shutting shutting out grazing from a 11 part of a woodlot and permitting per per- permitting grazing In adjoining parts hits has been hleen in hi pi progress ogress fo a little more than ten years COll Conditions have huc sti st steadily artily ed improved In the protected portion aid ind skillful cuttings have given rise riso to a II growth of useful young tre trees which will form m the basis for tor a n new crop n as mature trees are ale removed In the Qu to ture tare The grazed part pUt ha hits has f steadily deteriorated deteriorate In ina ed contrast to tn the part rl protected |