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MEASUREMENT OF FUEL. 



There is considerable confusion attendant upon the buying 

 and selling of fuel wood because it is sold as one thing while 

 the purchaser receives it in another form. It is sold as cord- 

 wood; i.e., wood in sticks 4 feet long piled so as to occupy 128 

 cubic feet of space, but it is delivered to the consumer as 

 fuel wood cut into lengths 2 feet or less. The State Forester 

 made an investigation to determine the amount of space that 

 an average cord of wood should occupy after it has been cut 

 into the ordinary commercial lengths, 24-inch, 16-inch, 12- 

 inch, and then thrown loose into a bin or restacked. At the 

 same time, we experimented to obtain the number of 2 and 

 4 bushel baskets per cord. We used approximately 150 cords 

 of hardwood of different types, all cleft, all round, mixed 

 round and cleft, and the table below gives the average re- 

 sults of those experiments. An attempt was made to make 

 these figures legal standard for a cord, but the proposition 

 was rejected by the Legislature. 



TABLE No. 35. Fuel Wood Units per Cord. 

 13-Inch Lengths. 



16-Inch Lengths. 



'+-Inch Lengths. 



Constructed from data collected by State Forester. 



