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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

FARMERS' BULLETIN No. 67.

FORESTRY FOR FARMERS.

BY

B. E. FERNOW,

Chief of the Division of Forestry.

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

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1898.

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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 theYearbooks 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 oftrees, the planting of a forest, treatment of the wood lot, the cultivation of thewood crop, influence of trees, etc. A wider distribution of this information, forwhich there is still considerable demand, would, I believe, result in acquaintingfarmers 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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