764 Forestry Quarterly 



The statement of Muller, that "trees of all species which have 

 continuously grown in dense stand are full-bodied, and hence wiU 

 invariably be cubed too high," is not so generally correct, if sawlogs 

 (not whole trees) and material up to 9 inch top diameter is involved. 



Ueber Kuhierung der Stdmme aus Ldnge und Mittenstdrke. Schweizerische 

 Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen, July- August, 1916, pp. 151-7. 



UTILIZATION, MARKET AND TECHNOLOGY 



Just to nail down information of price 



Wood Prices conditions before the war, for comparison 



in with conditions after the war, we abstract 



Prussia from Silva figures published in March, 1914. 



The year was not a boom year, but an 



improvement over the preceding years, 10 per cent and more over 



the year 1913 resulting in many wood auctions. The results of 



some 20 auctions in February and March in different parts of the 



Kingdom and detailed for coniferous workwood are given. 



These prices refer to logs and building timber, cut, lying in the 



woods — ^they are therefore log prices — and there are usually four 



grades involved which rely on size or contents of the piece for 



classification. 



In translating mark per festmeter into cents per cubic foot, the 

 approximate reduction factor of 2/30 has been used. 



Assortment 1 II III IV 



Pine 20.6-21.8 15.4-18.7 10.6-15.0 8.8-12.4 cents per 



Spruce and Fir 17.6-19.5 16.5-17.6 13.5-16.0 11.0-15.0 cu.ft. 



Some lower sizes of spruce sold for less than 11 cents. In trans- 

 lating these figures into price per M feet, each assortment would 

 have to be debited with a different loss per cent. Assitming this 

 per cent as 25 for the largest to 40 for the smallest sizes, woiild make 

 the average about 33 per cent which is about a usual asstunption. 

 That is to say 110, 120, 128, 140 cubic feet of the respective as- 

 sortments wotdd be required to make 1 M feet. We would find 

 then that the highest log prices were for pine just about $24 and 

 the lowest a little over $12, for spruce and fir the figures are $21.50 

 and a little over $15. 



Attempting to secure a translation into prices of stumpage, we 

 must deduct first logging expense which we may assume to ap- 



