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PENNSYLVANIA'S FORESTS.
Short Talks on the Forests and the
Lumber Situation.
By Gifford Pinchot,
Pennsylvania.
No. 11—Forests and Agriculture.
The farmer is the great consumer
of wood in the United States—more
than thirty-five per cent. of our na-
tional production of lumber, and more
than fifty per cent. of our production
of all kinds of wood, is used on the
farm. Wood is the farmer's chief
construction material. No substitute
will make building so easy and rapid
or fill so many of his needs. What-
ever raises the price or lowers the
quality of his timber supply adds to
his troubles and cuts down his re-
turns. -
There was a time when the Penn-
sylvania farmer looked upon the for-
est merely as an obstruction to be
got rid of before he could put his plow
to work. Brush and stumps were
hard to contend with, and wood for
fuel and construction was to be had
for the taking. Today the farm for-
est plays a growing part in the prof-
itable working of the Pennsylvania
farm.
The woodlots of the eastern farms
contain a very large part of the total
supply of hardwood left in the United
States. They are soon to become of
vast importance, both to their fortu-
nate owners and to the nation. In
this Pennsylvania will play a large
part.
To the farmer the woodlot furnish-
es material for fuel, fencing and con-
struction, and the chance for the prof-
itable use of otherwise slack time.
The sale of surplus woodlot produce
becomes constantly easier and more
profitable. With the rising prices
which the national shortage in good
hardwood has brought about, the own-
er will find it increasingly to his in-
terest to keep up his woodlot and to
extend it to lands otherwise idle or of
low value for other purposes. What-
ever works against keeping the farm
woodlot in good condition, works dam-
age not only to the owner but to the
people at large.
For the settler in the cut-over re-
gions, forest devastation has created
great opportunities and great dan-
gers. Forest devastation has put
many millions of acres upon the mar-
ket, and has opened the way to shame-
ful speculation and unmitigated fraud.
Innocent purchasers have been entic-
ed to buy lands of little or no value,
and then left to make a losing fight
against hopeless odds. Attempts to
farm low-grade cut-over lands have
made thousands of families into pau-
pers.
There are communities in many
parts of Pennsylvania, where lumber-
ing has been abandoned because the
trees have all been taken, and where
families have tried and tried hard to
eke out a living on ground that is not
fit for agriculture, only to fail. The
result has been degeneration of the
whole neighborhood. Hardship and
crime provoked by hardship have pro-
duced a race of people unfit for citi-
zenship. Such a local calamity as
this may be charged directly to forest
devastation.
There are doubtless some cut-over
lands in Pennsylvania that can be
made profitable for agriculture, but
the rule is that forest lands are of the
greatest service both to their owners
and to the State when they are con-
tinued as forest lands. The great
thing is to keep the land steadily at
work.
So long as lands are at work and at
profitable work, what crop they are
raising is of minor importance. Lands
which can best produce farm crops
should be kept at it. Lands which can
best produce forest crops should be
kept at work growing timber. If,
later on, the land can be made to pay
better in other crops, the most profit-
able crop will have the right of way.
This Month and Catarrh.
Many people find that during this month,
catarrh is so aggravated by sudden
changes of weather, jndiscretions in the
matter of clothing and other things, that
it becomes constantly troublesome.
There is abundant proof that catarrh is
a constitutional disease. It is related to
gcrofula and consumption, being one of the
wasting diseases. Hood's Sarasparilla has
shown that what is capable of eradicating
serofula, also relieves catarrh, and aids in
the prevention of consumption.
It is not easy to see how any sufferer
can put off taking this medicine, in view of
the widely published record of its remark-
able successes. It is called by its propri-
etors America’s Greatest Medicine for
America’s Greatest Disease—Catarrh.
In some cases there is occasionally need
of a thorough cathartic or gentle laxative,
and in these cases Hood's Pills are taken
with very satisfactory results. 65-45
Tree Injury by Rabbits and Mice Pre-
ventable.
Last spring hundreds of orchardists
and farmers found many of their fruit
trees girdled by mice or rabbits.
Bridge grafting saved some of the
trees that were damaged in this man-
ner, but this saving was much more
expensive than if precaution had been
taken the preceeding fall to guard
against the girdling. That fruit tree
owner is wise who takes immediate
steps to protect his property before
winter and heavy snows come, accord-
ing to Professor F. N. Fagan, .of the
horticultural department at The Penn-
sylvania State College school of agri-
culture.
Guard against mice or rabbits by
first clearing away all litter, such as
mulch, weeds and grass, from the base
of fruit trees. They form ideal places
for mice to spend the winter. Little
damage occurs in the cultivated orch-
ard except from rabbits. Soil can be
mounded about the base of trees be-
fore the soil freezes. If this is done
and the grass and weeds removed, lit-
tle damage can be expected from mice.
Such mounding is not a protection
against rabbits, however.
There are many methods of tree
protection that give good results.
Wire screen protectors, having two to
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