AN AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



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Cutting (logs) per thousand feet 



Skidding to mill per thousand feet , 



Sawing per thousand feet 



Sticking (piling lumber) per thousand feet 

 Delivering to market per thousand feet . . . 

 Estimated overrun per thousand feet 



* 7. 



2 OO 



3 oo 



40 



2 OO 



Total expense per M. board feet $8 50 



FIG. 180. A portable sawmill, getting out lumber for new buildings. 



The woodlot now a profitable farm crop. As an example, a farm 

 on the hill lands of southern Tompkins county consists of 100 acres, 30 

 acres of which is in timber. This woodlot was cut in 1907 for the 

 third time in 90 years. Each time it has been cut with entire disregard 

 for the future. The third cutting on the 30 acres sold for $2,100, stand- 

 ing. In spite of the present high price of lumber, no attention was given 

 to the future in this cutting. Young trees that were scarcely worth cut- 

 ting, but that would be valuable in 10 to 20 years, were cut. Those that 

 were too small to cut were broken down. This is the almost universal 

 practice, in spite of the profits that come from such a woodlot. 



