326 The Farm Woodlot 



hauled to the wood pile, and it makes a difference that 

 anyone can calculate, whether a cord of wood burned 

 green lasts 20 days, or burned dry lasts 30 days. A solid 

 foot of green elm wood weighs 60 to 65 Ibs., of which 30 to 

 35 Ibs. is sap or water. Beech wood loses one-eighth to 

 one-fifth its weight in drying; oak, one-quarter to two- 

 fifths. Therefore, get the winter's wood for fuel or kin- 

 dlings and let it be seasoned as soon as possible, and not 

 have a daily tussle with sissling firebrands and soggy wood." 



CORDWOOD ON AN ACRE 

 (Scribner's Lumber and Log Book) 



' l To estimate the quantity of cordwood on an acre of 

 woodland requires experience. A person .who has been 

 engaged in clearing land and cutting wood could give a 

 very close estimate at a general glance, but other persons 

 would make the wildest guesses. An inexperienced per- 

 son may proceed as follows : measure out four square rods 

 of ground ; that is, 33 feet each way, and count the trees, 

 averaging the cubic contents as nearly as possible of the 

 trunks, and adding one-fourth of this for the limbs. Then, 

 as 128 cubic feet make a cord, and the plot is one-fortieth of 

 an acre, the result is easily reached. 



" Fairly good timber land should yield a cord to every 

 four square rods. A tree two feet in diameter and 30 feet 

 high to the limbs, will make a cord of wood if it is growing 

 in close timber, and the limbs are not heavy. If the limbs 

 are large and spreading, such a tree will make 1J to 1J 

 cords. A tree one foot in diameter will make one-fourth 

 as much as one twice the diameter. In estimating it is 

 necessary to remember this fact. 



