The Government reports that where the farm woodlots are fully stocked with trees and well-cared for, an acre of hardwoods will produce from one-half to one cord of wood--a cord of wood is equal to about 500 board feet of lumber.

A pine forest will produce from one to two cords of wood an acre.

The growth is greater in the warmer southern climate than it is in the North where the growing season is much shorter.

Expert foresters say that posts and crossties can be grown in from ten to thirty years and that most of the rapid growing trees will make saw timber in between twenty and forty years.
After the farm woodland is logged, a new stand of young trees will develop from seeds or sprouts from the stumps.

Farmers find that it is profitable to harrow the ground in the cut-over woodlands to aid natural reproduction, or to turn hogs into the timber tract to rustle a living as these animals aid in scattering the seed under favorable circumstances.