Thanks to all for the replies! I have enough plantable acreage for corn and I would much rather raise corn  than cut wood. I know without even taking soil samples, it is gonna take a lot to bring the soil up to snuff. This wood thing has about killed me... all the fun is gone <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->  I was just trying to get an estimate of acreage needed for an ample supply of corn for a winters heating needs.
    Actually, I have found a far better way to cut the heating costs and it has helped everyone here in the northeast! This is the mildest winter I can ever remember and it is all my doing!  I got the tractor winterized and put the snow thrower on early..... as a consequence, it is mild.... no snow....no more frost in the ground!  I don't admit this to my wife as she sits by the door looking out most every evening waiting for the snow so she can head out with her skis. Poor girl! <!-- s:cry: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cry.gif" alt=":cry:" title="Crying or Very sad" /><!-- s:cry: --> 
   I just spoke with the neighbor in the last day or two and he told me he just put 3 or 4 hundred bales of really nice hay (no foolin'!) where he could not get at it during the summer because of wet ground.  Hay in December is a new one on me around these parts!
                                  Cal