REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



The details of cost are as follows :- 



Per Cent 

 of Cost. 



Slashing, cutting, clearing windfalls, logs, pulling and blowing old stumps, 

 piling and burning same before felling trees 



Felling, cutting, splitting, piling and burning trees and cleaning up ready for 

 plough .... 



Powdf t, fuse, caps 



Teaming 



Tools and repairs 



(3) Seven acres of similarly timbered land, with no swamp, but previously 

 slashed: Contract, $280 per acre; total cost of clearing, $240 per acre. 

 Details as follows : — 



Cutting and clearing windfalls, logs, pulling and blowing old stumps, piling 



and burning same before fehing trees 



Felling, cutting, splitting, piling and burning same and cleaning up ready for 



plOUgh : 



Powder, fuse, caps 



Teaming 



Tools and repairs 



Per Acre. 



Per Cent 

 of Cost. 



$40 



246 



16 



100 



(4) Seven acres, similarly timbered but previously cleared of brush by a forest 

 fire, were cleared at a contract price of $200 per acre. The actual cost per acre was 

 $189, the details of clearing being as follows : — 



Slashing, cutting and clearing windfall logs, pulling and blowing old stumps, piling and 



burning same before felling trees 



Felling, cutting, splitting, piling and burning same and cleaning up ready for plough. 



Powder, fuse and caps 



Teaming 



Tools and repairs 



