Show FUEL mi SUPPLY OF F FUTURE ON FARM Many Communities Finding It r Necessary sary to G Go Farther Back for Their Wood WOODLANDS Not Desirable to Use Good Agricultural Agricultural tural Lands as Inferior Spots Will Grow Sufficient Amount for Each Years Year's Needs States Department Department Depart Depart- Prepared by tho United ment of Agriculture Communities In wooded regions should not depend on the chance growth of wood for their future fuel supply Already many communities e especially In the Northeast are finding It t necessary each year eal to go farther and md farther back for their wood or to cut smaller trees each succeeding year Because the time available supply of standing standIng stand- stand Ing ng wood Is too small to allow the trees to grow to the proper propel size before before be be- fore they are cut Must Provide Woodlands The time tine will come and cone and soon In some regions the foresters say when say when It t will be necessary to set aside areas to produce wood and to manage them for for- maximum wood production In the shortest possible time tine It Is not de desirable le- le to devote ote good agricultural land and to this purpose generally the time Inferior inferior inferior In in- land on on farms will grow sufficient sufficient suf suf- fuel to supply regularly each years year's needs Farms with such land are numerous In the time hilly sections of the country and are found almost ever everywhere everywhere ev ev- er except In the prairie and plains regions and In limited areas In n the river bottoms Meanwhile the least that should be bed bedone bedone d done ne Is to see that fire and other destructive destructive destructive de de- de- de agents are arc kept out of growIng growing growing grow grow- ing woodland and that In cutting for firewood only the material taken talen out which will not Injure the productive capacity of the remaining stand Ads Ad Ad- Y s s r tp t. t p ik 1 I- I 8 kY d r t A Forest Planting Supplies Timber and Fuel vice on these matters will be given h by the We various state forestry depart department departments ments ment or by the time forest service of the United States department of ture Municipal Forests Needed Acute need for fuel in emergencies s furnishes one of the strongest arguments arguments arguments ments for cities or towns maintaining municipal forests In available wooded districts These emergencies may be expected periodically and municipal forests serving as parks and pleasure grounds or as ns protection to water supplies supplies sup sup- plies can come Into play playas as fuel re- re serves In time of stress when then coal can cannot cannot I I not be obtained In sufi sufficient clent quantities The Time foresters recommend the point the thoughtful consideration of ot e ev evI I community which has jacent woodland Some towns already ow and eventually many o 0 oare are expected to hr be tied sections of tin th found how easily how any respects ts Instead W vT J RE 0 sources of expense well managed d woodlands should quickly become sources of con- con revenue to the communities owning them I |