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HARDWOOD RECORD 



THE STORY OF YELLOW POPLAR 



Illustrations from Photographs by Editor Hardwood Record 

 CHAPTER III 



THE r.EST MULES I'UKCIIASArsLE A1!E EMI'LOYED. 



,Tlie accompanj'ing pictures ilo i!ot i:eeil 

 very much text to explain this detail of tlic 

 timber operations of the Yellow Poplar Lum- 

 ber Company of Coal Grove, Ohio, to 

 which great institution this series of arti- 

 cles pertains. The logging operations of an 

 institution like this one differ materially 

 from those of the majority of hardwood 

 propositions. Primarily, it must be known 

 that poplar timber does not exist in a solid 

 stand, but grows interspersed with oak, 

 chestnut, hemlock, beech, birch, maple and 

 minor varieties of hardwoods. As the Yel- 

 low Poplar Lumber Company operates ex- 

 clusively in poplar and as this wood never 

 exists in an average stand above twenty-five 

 hundred feet to the acre, and often runs less 

 than one thousand feet to the acre, it will 

 be seen that this company has to go over a 

 large area of land year by year in order 

 to secure its thirty to forty million feet 

 annual log crop. 



This way of logging a timber property is 

 very expensive as compared with the cost 

 entailed where the entire forest is denuded 

 at one time. In the case of the particular 

 timber operation now being conducted by this 

 company in Dickinson county, Va., it meant 

 about a year ago the entering upon an un- 

 broken forest remote from railroad or other 

 transportation facilities, with only a ssat- 



"SCALPING" THE LOG 



