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THIS is an excellent handbook of elementary forestry, specially adapted for the use of farmers and students of agriculture in North America, yet containing much that should be of interest to landowners in this country. There are wellwritten chapters on practical sylviculture, on forest mensuration, protection and utilisation, on ornamental planting, and about the durability and preservation of timber. A special article deals with the economic position of the forest and the work of afforestation in the modern State. The authors discuss the question of the apportionment of the soil of a country into the two classes of agricultural and forest lands, on the only just basis; a comparison of the net revenues obtainable from the land under other crops, and under trees. Most of us, who regard the United States as producing timber only from her virgin forests, will learn with surprise that already in New England plantations of white pine have yielded six per cent. annually on the investment.
The Farm Woodlot: a Handbook of Forestry for the Farmer and the Student in Agriculture.
By E. G. Cheyney Prof. J. P. Wentling. Pp. xii + 343. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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The Farm Woodlot: a Handbook of Forestry for the Farmer and the Student in Agriculture . Nature 94, 88 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094088b0
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