104 THE USE BOOK. 



Lagging may be measured by the cord or linear foot, or by 

 the piece, or, where split lagging is used, by the board foot, each 

 cubic foot counting as 12 board feet. 



Poles, posts, piles, converter poles, telephone poles, and stulls 

 may be scaled, sold by the linear foot, or sold by the piece, as 

 circumstances warrant. 



Unsound or crooked logs will be scaled down to the actual 

 contents of merchantable material. All partially unsound but 

 merchantable stuff must be scaled, whether removed or not. In 

 ground-rotten timber, butts which, though unsound at heart, 

 contain good lumber toward the outside, are frequently left in 

 the woods. Where such material will pay for saw r ing, the 

 Forest officer will scale it at what he considers its true value 

 and include it in the amount purchased. 



Logs which are not round will be scaled on the average 

 diameter. 



In the absence of a scale stick, or where the position of logs 

 in the pile makes its use difficult, the diameters and lengths may 

 be tallied and the contents figured from a scale table later. 



When necessary and possible, the purchaser will be required 

 to mark top ends of logs to avoid question when they are scaled 

 in the pile. 



The purchaser may be required to skid logs of different lengths 

 in separate piles for convenience in scaling. 



The Forest officer should always insist on having one end of 

 piles or skidways even, so that ends of logs may be easily 

 reached. 



When_3aled^_each^ stick of sawlogs^timbers, ties, posts, poles, 

 or piles must be stamped on at least one end. pordwood must 

 be stamged at both top_and bottom of each pile and^afTeast 12 

 pieces in each cord must be stamped. 



