Show woodland work work working ing in the woods was the regular winter job in the east in earlier days and still Is s so where woods remain in appreciable area now the idea Is improvement of the scattering woodland rather than slashing it down A sunshiny day in winter Is an especially good time to look the woods over the tops can be seen clearly then and trees getting past their best noted more carefully than in summer it Is quite surprising how low much in the way of both timber and fuel can be removed from 20 acres of our common woodland without robbing it of anything that would be improved by another year of standing buom and it la Is not a bad form of winter sport either when one has a sharp ax as cross cut saw and con genial wording partner |