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A MANUAL OF FORESTRY 



Lumbering is a form of business in which there are many 

 chances of loss and in which experience and the judgment ac- 

 quired thereby are of great value. Without these there is a 

 large chance of failure. The inexperienced man may well prefer 

 to pay a lumberman a commission on an operation, which he 

 practically does when he sells the stumpage, instead of acting 

 as his own lumberman. In determining the value of stumpage 



Fig. 62. A selected lot of the best grade spruce logs for manufacture into clapboards. 



it is necessary to make a distinction between the price which the 

 owner could get for it if he sold to a lumberman or jobber, and 

 what he could realize if he acted as his own jobber. If successful 

 in the latter capacity he would have the additional profit which 

 the lumberman would expect to make by the operation. 



In most communities there are men who make a business in 

 winter of hauling logs and wood. They will take a contract to 

 haul the given distance at a certain price per thousand feet or 

 per cord. The prices charged are usually based on a fair day's 

 wage for men and teams, and this, of course, varies in different 



