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The Wood Scouts and the Wood-Lot: January

January is the month in which business men are accustomed to take inventory; that is to say, to make a list of the goods they have in stock, estimate their value at current prices, figure up the profits and losses of the old year, and make plans for the new. So, let us wood scouts do the same for our wood-lots; and if you don't find it one of the most interesting things you ever did, I'll miss my guess.

To one passing along the road in midwinter a farmer's wood-lot, his timber-land, may look anything but interesting, with its bare, gaunt trees and patches of snow and dead leaves, but if you're "on the inside," as the saying is, in the wood-lot business, it has all the fascination of a busy city with its manufacturing plants, its stock exchange, its great railway terminals--in short, all the features of its business life that often look so attractive, and so different, to boys on the farm.