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TABLE No. 15. Volume Table for Red Maple. 



Constructed by E. E. Carter and first published in Bulletin of the Harvard 

 Forestry Club, Vol. II, 1913, pages 1-8, "A Volume Table for Red Maple on the 

 Harvard Forest." Revised and enlarged by the author in 1915 and published in 

 United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 285, "The Northern 

 Hardwood Forest," pages 61-63. The present tables are taken from the latter 

 source. Cubic foot volumes are for stem and branch wood to a minimum 

 diameter, outside the bark, of about 2 inches at the middle of a 4-foot length. 

 The measurements were taken in a wide variety of types, including bottom or 

 swale, pine slopes, swamp, and birch and maple coppice. Most of the trees 

 over 6 inches, breast high, were of seedling origin. 



In 1920 the cord volume table was given the following test. A square quarter- 

 acre was laid off in an even-aged mixed hardwood stand. By calipering each 

 tree and measuring a number of heights the volume in cords was computed by 

 the use of the table. The area was then clear cut and the wood piled. The 

 actual volume cut was 5.772 cords; the volume as derived from the table amounted 

 to 5.725 cords. The test indicated that the volume table for red maple is appli- 

 cable to second growth mixed hardwood, regardless of species. 



