128 A STUDY OF FOREST CONDITIONS 



them. By taking the hogs off the range, infectious diseases 

 would be stamped out in a very short time, and the grade 

 of stock would gradually improve. The State should pass 

 a law compelling the fencing of hogs. If it fails to do so, 

 each longleaf pine county should take advantage of the 

 present local option law, which allows counties and dis- 

 tricts to regulate this question, and prevent the promiscuous 

 grazing of hogs through the woods and cutover lands. 



Contract for Sale of Timber. — Small private owners, 

 trustees of school lands, and others who sell standing timber 

 for removal, shoiild insist on the adoption of all practicable 

 precautions to insure the future usefulness of the area. In 

 a contract for the sale of timber, the following recommenda- 

 tions and clauses are suggested: 



1. Describe the sale area by legal subdivisions; metes 

 and bounds, or by a designated name. 



2. Estimate the amount of material, preferably by 

 species, included in the sale. 



3. Specify whether full or partial payments will be made. 



4. No timber will be cut or removed until it has been 

 paid for. 



5. No timber will be removed until it has been scaled, 

 measured or counted. 



6. All merchantable timber used in buildings, skidways, 

 bridges, construction of roads, or other improvements will 

 be paid for at the contract price, but no charge will be made 

 for material not merchantable under the terms of this 

 agreement and not reserved for seed. 



7. All cutting will be done with a saw when possible. 



8. No unnecessary damage will be done to young growth 

 or to trees left standing, and no trees shall be left lodged in 

 the process of felling. 



9. No trees shall be turpentined unless they are to be 

 cut subsequently. 



10. The approximate minimum diameter limit at a point 

 43^ feet from the ground to which living trees are to be cut 



is but trees above these diam- 



(I.imits for all species involved) 

 eters may be reserved for seed or protection. A good diam- 



