Show WOODLOTS IM JAPAN in these times of great drains drain on I 1 the timber supply caused by the heavy bemand tor for forest products of all ands americans may see in japan an example of what can be done in growing wood on small plots that country contains 21 million woodlots wood lots about three fourths ot of which belong to private persons and one fourth to communes i the aver average aga size of the plots isles is less than nine tenths ol of an acre they usually occupy the steepest roughest poorest ground in this way land Is put putto 4 to use which would otherwise go to waste and it if would lose its soil by the wash ot of the dashing rains from japans woodlots wood lots the yearly yield of lumber is about 88 feet broad measure per acre and three fourths of a cord of firewood in many cases the yield Is much higher more than half a billion trees are planted yearly to make up what Is cut tor for lumber and fuel assessment for taxation is low averaging for the 21 million lots less than a dollar an acre with all the care in cutting and the industry Inre planting it is by no means certain that japans forests are holding their own it if the preservation Eer of the forests is doubtful there it is evident that depletion must be alarmingly rapid in other countries which cut unsparingly and plant very little on the other hand it la Is encouraging to see what can be done with rough steep and poor land the united states has enough of that kind without Aou touching the rich agricultural acres to grow b bit le lions of feet ot of lumber |