12—r-Lancastcr Farming, Friday, April 5, 1957
Forester Gives Farmers Tips, Advice
On Farm Wood Lot Management
In a recent trip to Lancaster
County Edward P. Farand, assist
ant extension foester from Penn
some tips and advice
On ISm wood lot management.
of the trip, Farrand
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visited the woodlot of B. <J. and
J. Mark *Bushong, R 2 Columbia.
The timber covers a 12 to 13 acre
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Bushong’s problem is that he
has received several offers from
saw mill operators to come in and
cut off the marketable timber, but
he did not know how to go about
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putting a value on the timber, hu
In a survey -of the wood lot,
Farrand found that the ,woods is
composed of general mixture ot,
species with a high percentage of I
mature commercially desirable, 1
trees. At the same time, he found
that there were many trees in the
woods with little or no commer
cial value.
These were in addition to sev
eral large spreading “wolf trees”
that shade and crowd out young
growth without adding any com
mercial value to the wood lot.
Farrand said that the Bushong
woods were typical of the average
farm woods that has been allowed
to grow without management or
harvest.
His recommendations were
1. "Oaks with a stump diameter
of 20 inches or more can be cut.
2. Poplar and cherry trees with
a stump diameter of 26 inches or
more can be cut.
3. Trees smaller than this
should be allowed to stand unless
they are so crooked or branchy
that they will never be good
saw tree. In this case, they can be
allowed fo stand a few years for
seed if needed, or they can be
cut and allowed to lay or they can
be killed by chemicals.
4 In selling timber, the farm
er can mark the trees to be cut
and so specify in the contract, or
the contract with the mill man
can specify size trees to be cut.
5. Before selling, it is usually
best to get bids from more'than
one operator.
Farrand said that the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture has avail
able sample contracts for farmers
to use as a giude in selling timber.
They are found in Measuring and
Marketing Farm Timber, Farmers
Bulletin 1210.
The same publication also con
tains scales for determining board'
feet in a given tree.
Noting that labor costs are high
in timber production, Farrand
said that the farmer can make an
additional 15 cents a thousand
board feet by cutting and hauling
logs to the edge of the wood lot
for pick up by the mill truck.
In maiking trees to be cut, two
marks should be made, he said.
The first should be made about
four feet up on the trunk of the
tree. The other should be made
on the stump near ground level.
(Continued on page 13)
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EXTENSION FORESTER Edward P. Farrand shows J.
Mark Bushong, R 2 Columbia, a sample boring from an oak
tree trunk. By looking at the rings of the tree extracted
•by the borer, it can be determined if the tree is growing
rapidly or not. This tree showed that it was growing at a
rate of about half an inch a, year. Farrand said that in most
cases when a tree is still making such rapid growth, it
should be allowed to stand. (LF Photo)
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