Abstract
A MOST interesting little booklet entitled “Farm Forestry” by W. A. Ross and W. R. Mattoon has recently been issued by the Office of Education, Department of the Interior, United States (Vocational Division Bulletin No. 196, Agricultural Series No. 52, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, 1939). The material in the bulletin has been prepared to provide teachers of what is termed vocational agriculture with valuable subject-matter written in a practical fashion to enable them to offer more effective systematic instruction on certain forestry work on the farm. The United States, it is said, contains some 470,000,000 acres of land which, is classified as forest land. In addition there are soveral million acres which economists say are in excess of what will be required for the production of field crops and the raising of live-stock and which are therefore available for forestry purposes. Timber is now a recognized crop in diversified farming programmes. Much of the booklet may be read with interest in its application to Great Britain. The United States has, as is well known, some difficult problems to solve owing to excessive lumbering of forest and excessive crop-growing on soils not applicable to such treatment. The so-called dust bowls have shown the direction to which such over-utilization leads. The hints given in this bulletin are therefore of major importance to the farmer.
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Farm Forestry in the United States. Nature 144, 828 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144828c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144828c0