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SECTION IX. ESTIMATING THK VIKLD. 



1. XunthcriiHj the Lots. 



As .soon as the felling operations are over, the amount of 

 material produced must he calculated and its value estimated. 

 If the clearance of the area and the transport are carried 

 on simultaneously, and the wood is removed a considerable 

 distance from the felling-area to valleys or rafting stations and 

 collected there, the estimation is ell'ected at these places, and 

 in the case of summer fellings often not till the following 

 spring. 



Kacli log or bull, each pile of 100, 50 or '25 poles, etc., 

 each stack of firewood, and every "25 faggots, form the several 



ier's numbering tutiutner. 



lots. Current numbers are, therefore, affixed to each separate 

 lot, to distinguish them from one another. 



in order to render the control of timber-export effective, it is 

 better that one series of numbers should serve for a whole 

 forest-range, or for a group of fellings the produce of which 

 passes in a certain direction. In order, however, to obviate 

 the inconvenience of using very high numbers, each class and 

 sub-class of produce is numbered separately, so that there are 

 several series of numbers each beginning with No. 1, for 

 the logs, butts, hundreds of poles, stacked wood or faggots. In 

 Prussia and some other countries, each species of wood, such 

 as beech-logs, oak-logs, etc., receive different series of numbers. 



The numbering may be done by hand, or by means of a piece 

 of softwood charcoal, a red pencil or by Faber's numbering 

 chalk, the marks of which last for two years. A paint brush and 

 black oil-paint also may be used with or without stencil-plates. 

 Certain steel dies have been invented, of which Gohler's 



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