4. WOODLOT FARMING Increasing numbers of farmers are coming to realise the wide benefits of trees on farms. Not only in their accepted roles as shelter for stock and farm, the provider of firewood, fencing, and building materials but also as a profitable cash crop returning dividends from what otherwise may be unusable farm land. As part of their service to the public the New Zealand Forest Service assists with advice on the establishment and tending of farm woodlots. Informative brochures are published by the Service to help in siting, choice of species,, planting, culture arid the marketing of timber produce. Sound, forestry can contribute to the prosperity of a farmer and the welfare of a whole district a contribution in which the New Zealand Forest Service is very pleased to assist. Forestry is forever Inserted in the interests of forest protection by the New Zealand Forest Service ... Soil Conservation Council. i
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 94, Issue 2, 15 February 1957, Page 160
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