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FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



scaled in sixteen-foot logs beginning with the butt, the small 

 top piece when one remains being given separately a fair 

 valuation. On general principles the figures are then reduced 



Breast Diameter. 



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CO a; 5 iJ 

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7. 



8. 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 



7.2 

 9.3 

 12.8 

 17.2 

 21. 

 25.5 

 29.2 

 34.3 

 41. 



13 



25 



42 



65 



80 



102 



115 



137 



173 



1.8 



2.6 



3.2 



3.6 



3.85 



4. 



4.1 



4.2 



4.25 



sixteen and two-thirds per cent. The accompanying table 

 gives the results. First is given for trees, seven, eight, etc., 

 inches in breast diameter their average volume as actually 

 found. Bark is here included. Next to that is given the 

 scale, bark off, as just defined. The one set of figures is 

 then divided bv the other, giving thus board feet scaled for 

 each cubic foot in the tree. This last set of figures has been 

 evened by plotting and drawing a curve. 



Probably these figures represent al)Out the closest cutting 

 and most liberal scaling now practiced anywhere in the State. 

 A lai'o^e share of the trees used in this tabulation were cut in 

 the Moosehead region by men cutting on stumpage permits 

 to sell. The scale by current methods *of the logs they 

 actually took, including none from trees less than eleven 

 inches in breast diameter, has been figured out. It underruns 

 the figures of the table by nearly twenty-five per cent. 



* That is scaling logs up to 26 feet long as one stick, logs 27 to 35 feet long as two 

 sticks allowing one inch rise for the butt, logs longer than 35 feet with two inches 

 rise. On all there is allowed 10 per cent, discount. Seldom was 40 feet of a tree 

 taken. 



