Forestry for Farmers

by B. E. Fernow

B. E. FERNOW,

Chief of the Division of Forestry.

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[Reprinted from the Yearbooks of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
for 1894 and 1895.]

[WASHINGTON:]

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1898.

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Division of Forestry,
Washington, D. C., December 4, 1897.

Sir: I have the honor to recommend that the two articles contributed by me to the Yearbooks for 1894 and for 1895 on forestry for farmers be reprinted as a Farmers' Bulletin. The articles contain information in popular form regarding the growth of trees, the planting of a forest, treatment of the wood lot, the cultivation of the wood crop, influence of trees, etc. A wider distribution of this information, for which there is still considerable demand, would, I believe, result in acquainting farmers with a subject the importance of which has not always been duly recognized.

Very respectfully,

B. E. Fernow, Chief.

Approved:
James Wilson, Secretary.

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[CONTENTS.]

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	Page.
How trees grow	[3]
Food materials and conditions of growth	[3]
Soil conditions	[4]
Light conditions	[6]
Physiology of tree growth	[9]
"Sap up and sap down"	[10]
Progress of development	[11]
Growth in length and ramification	[11]
Growth in thickness	[14]
Form development	[17]
Rate of growth	[19]
Reproduction	[21]
How to plant a forest	[22]
What trees to plant	[23]
Methods of planting	[26]
How to treat the wood lot	[28]
Improvement cuttings	[29]
Methods of reproducing the wood crop	[31]
Size of openings	[34]
Wind mantle	[34]
Coppice	[35]
Plan of management	[37]
How to cultivate the wood crop	[37]
Effect of light on wood production	[38]
Number of trees per acre	[38]
Weeding and cleaning the crop	[40]
Methods of thinning	[40]
What trees to remove	[41]
The relation of forests to farms	[42]
The forest waters the farm	[44]
The forest tempers the farm	[45]
The forest protects the farm	[45]
The forest supplies the farm with useful material	[46]

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