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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1941

Page

6

Study Each Tree and Improve Farm Woods

The article advises farmers to select which trees to cut for firewood and which to let stand to grow valuable wood. It suggests marking trees, planning a year's cutting area, and using natural seeding or nursery seedlings to fill gaps while noting extension leaflets and A A A support for forest improvement as soil-building practice.

O’byrne Blacksburg Forester

Forester urges farms to study timber development in Virginia

Virginia farmers hold more land in timber than any other crop. J W O Byrne, extension forester, warns that care for timber lags behind attention to small crops and urges starting forest work in January to improve stands, remove culls, and plan for 1941 while seasons allow.

Blacksburg Virginia J. W. O'Byrne Extension Service

Rainfall Statistics From Winchester Research Lab

Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour precip of 0.05 inches and year to date 0.56 inches. A 27 year period 1913 to 1939 yields monthly averages from January to December with total annual rainfall around 35.53 inches.

Winchester Research Laboratory

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