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Show Farm Weodlots Yield $5.83 an Acre, Cash From This Must Be Deducted Deduct-ed Taxes and Interest. Few owners of farm woodlots have any idea how much return they may reasonably expect from woodlands protected from grazing live stock, and from which only the "ripe" trees are harvested at regular intervals. But F. W. Dean, extension forester at Wooster, Ohio, recently met such an owner, who has protected his woods and kept a record of the income in-come from them. Tills owner lives in Kichland county and his woodland tract of 25 acres has paid him, during the past 24 years, a cash income of $5.8:5 per acre for the standing Income. In-come. From this must be deducted interest and taxes. In I'JU'i, the hulk of the large timber tim-ber was sold from the land for $:l,000. Hut there was left a large quantity of thrifty growing tulip poplar, white ash, white and red oak, sugar maple, has.swood and chestnut. Since 1903 four crops of logs have been sold. Once In about every six years the owner has gone through the woods, selected a ripe tree here and there, and marketed the logs. He has received re-ceived in the 24 years, $3,500 for the timber sold, giving the aunual return of $5.83 per acre. "Every farm woods that is now grazed can be converted into a paying pay-ing woodlot If fenced off,". Dean says, "but in its present condition it faces a hopeless future so far as producing a future timber crop." |