JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



Vol. XVI 



NOVEMBER, 1918 



No. 7 



A FOLDING BILTMORE STICK 



By W. B. Barrows 



One disadvantage encoimtered in using calipers, especially large 

 calipers, is that of transportation. They are clumsy things to carry 

 around. A Biltmore stick is much handier, but the standard stick is 

 rather long. In many cases a folding Biltmore stick will answer every 

 purpose, and such a stick has the advantage of lightness and portability. 

 The illustration below shows a folding stick made from a folding 

 2-foot rule. The figures on one side of the rule were scraped off with 

 a piece of broken glass and small paper numerals were pasted on to 



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indicate diameters. The whole stick was then varnished two coats. 

 If the figures are stamped into the wood with steel dies, blackened with 

 a soft lead pencil and then varnished, they will remain legible even after 

 long use. If no clies are at hand, the figures can be simply marked on 

 in pencil and then varnished. The graduations between the figures differ 

 from those ordinarily found on I'.iltmore sticks in that thev represent 

 odd diameters instead of even ones, i^ince every tree larger than 13 

 inches and smaller than 15 inches in diameter is tallied as a 14-inch tree 



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