Periodical Literature. 433' 



Net prices for spruce and fir, cut, in the forest, per cubic foot. 



Logs I class 14.5 cents 



" II " 13.5 " 



" III " 12.4 " 



" IV " 9.5 " 



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Poles 8. 



Hop poles, 4 classes 5.8 to 8.8 



Cordwood, split 3.8 to 8.8 



round 3.2 to 8.8 



Brushwood .9 to 8.8 



Tanbark (spruce) 2. to 8.8 



Die Privatwaldungen des IVolftales im badischen Sch-cuarzwald. AUge- 

 meine Forst- und Jagdzeitung. March, April, 1913. Pp. ; 1 13-129. 



Compared with the total cut of softwoods 

 Yield in Wiirttemberg hardwoods are relatively 



from unimportant. They constituted but 7 per 



Hardwoods. cent- of the annual cut in 1910. Of this 7 



per cent, oak and beech each made up 3 

 per cent, and miscellaneous hardwoods the 

 remaining i per cent. In value, hardwoods are even less im- 

 portant than numerically, since in 1910 the total value of all hard- 

 woods cut in Wiirttemberg was but 6 per cent, of the total yield. 

 Yet, intrinsically, hardwoods are more valuable, as the following 

 prices for south Germany will show : 



For Class I (60 cm and over in middle diameter) in log 



lengths. 



Spruce $30 per M 



Fir 30 



Pine 70 



Oak 122 



Beech 46 



Other hardwoods 116 



One of the most effective ways of increasing the value of hard- 

 woods is by grading the logs before offering them for sale into 

 two classes, the first of which contains the logs that are free from 

 all blemishes. Such a division is made in each size class. Fur- 



