In the eastern United States there are about 169,000,000 acres of farmland forests.

If these woodlands could be joined together in a solid strip one hundred miles wide, they would reach from New York to San Francisco.

They would amount to an area almost eight times as large as the combined forests of France which furnished the bulk of the timber used by the Allies during the World War.
In the North, the farm woodlands compose two-fifths of all the forests.

Altogether there are approximately 53,000,000 acres of farm woodlots which yield a gross income of about $162,000,000 annually to their owners.

Surveys show that in the New England States more than 65 per cent.