29$ FELLING AND CONVERSION OF TIMBER. 



As these prices, or royalties, are fixed by units at so much 

 a cubic meter or cubic foot, per log, per hundred poles, etc., per 

 stacked cubic meter, 100 stacked cubic feet, cord or 100 

 faggots all that has to be done is to multiply the number of 

 units in each class by the price of a unit. 



The felling-register usually contains a summary of the 

 whole produce of the felling, and for this the cubic me,ter is 

 used generally throughout Germany, France, Austria-Hungary 

 and Switzerland. 



There is no difficulty in calculating the cubic contents of all 

 the timber and poles, and certain reducing factors established 

 by experiment are used to transform all the stacked volume of 

 the firewood, faggots, etc., from stacked to solid measure. 



The following average reducing-factors were determined by 

 measurements made in Austria, for pieces one meter long : 



Hardwood . Si >f t w< >m I . 



Stacked timber .... '73 '11 



Split firewood 1st class . . . '67 '68 



2nd class . . '63 '65 



3rd class (knotty wood) *58 



Round billets .... '57 '64 



Ditto small .... '44 '50 



Boot and stump-wood . "40 '47 



100 Faggots ..... 1-61 1-65 



Beech, [ash, sycamore. Tr.] hornbeam and oak are classed 

 as hardwoods; alder, birch, aspen, spruce, silver-fir, larch, 

 Scots and Austrian pines as softwoods. 



2. Revision of the Record. 



On completion of the felling-register, or before it is written 

 up from the range timber receipt-book, the record of the produce 

 of a felling may be revised by a superior forest official. This 

 should be done carefully in the case of valuable timber, but is 

 hardly necessary for firewood. 



3. Payment of the 



As soon as tho full statement of the prod-urn from the felling- 

 area has been prepared, there can be no difficulty in settling 



