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When the tree is sound at the bottom, the lumber thus wasted in 

 «tump and scarf is by far the most valuable portion of the tree, foot 

 per foot — the largest, clearest aud best — the part that is most likeh', 

 either by itself or in connection with some of the adjacent part 

 above, to yield or add to the number of clapboard cuts from the tree. 



The remedy for this waste at the bottom is to saw the tree down 

 as low as possible belore the snow falls. 



The knotty top, although less valuable than the same amount of 

 lumber in the smooth bole, is for some purposes, just as useful and, 

 at any rate, has some merchantable value even if it be a small one. 



As this lumber is of a poorer quality than that from lower down, 

 the lumberman cannot afford to take much of it at the same stump- 

 age price as he pays for the latter, but he can afford to take it at a 

 less price and can do so v. iih profit to bath parties — the land owner 

 and himself. 



As an instance of the saving or gain that might be effected by 

 this method of cutting, a case that 0!curied on the Penobscot last 

 winter may be cited. 



In this operation, owing to the great depth of snow that prevailed, 

 the trees, although sawed down, were not sawed as low as the}- 

 should have been by about a foot, and more lumber was left in the 

 tops than it was intended to have left, but notwithstanding this, on a 

 total scale of 602 M of pine there was lumber to the amount of 400 

 M of trunk logs, and 202 M of logs from the tops, or a gain of 

 more than 50 per cent in quantity, from the tops alone. Besides 

 this, there was a gain of about 5 per cent in the measurement of the 

 trunk logs, due to the saving of the usually scarfed portion. 



The stumpage on this lumber was a proportion of the price it 

 brought when sold, the proportion being different for the different 

 qualities : 

 340 M of 1st class pine from trunks at $5.76 $1,958 40 



60 " " 2d " " " " " 2.92^ 175 50 



2C2 -' " 2d " " " tops '' 2 92^ 590 85 



602 Totals S2,724 75 



These same trees, if loell cut in the ordinary manner, in but a 

 slight depth of snow, would have given as follows : 



324 M of Ist class logs from trunks at S5.76 $1,866 24 



57 " " 2d " " " " " 2.921 166 72 



381 Totals $2,032 96 



