Forest Mensuration 



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CULL TABLE B 

 Loss BY CUTTING SLABS FROM ONE SIDE OF 16-FooT LOGS 



Every farmer who sells any timber from his woodlot 

 should understand this process thoroughly, for sharp 

 practice often imposes on the ignorance of the owner and 

 he loses much of his profits through an unfair scale. 



In some parts of the country, notably eastern New 

 York, the standard is used as the unit of log measure. 

 This standard is a log thirteen feet long and nineteen 

 inches in diameter at the small end. Five standards 

 are considered the equivalent of a thousand board feet. 

 This rule is not very widely used. 



All logs for export are sold by the cubic foot, the most 

 accurate unit of measurement. This measure is not used 

 in th< I'nitrd States except in a few special cases. 



The cubic content^ of a log is found accurately enough 



