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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Mr. Hartt, "I was pretty skeptical, but now I know 

 better. We can burn hardwood brush any time during 

 the summer or in a Winding snow storm in winter. All 

 you've got to do is to start a small fire with birch bark 

 and twigs and when it's burning good, pile on your 

 limbs. You can burn it slick and clean. And I tell you 

 this brush burning in the woods is a great thing. At 

 first, I couldn't see it, but now I'm enthusiastic about it. 

 It makes logging a lot easier and then it's the best sort 

 of fire protection. I figure that our cost of skidding is 

 cheapened seventy-five cents a thousand by getting rid of 

 the brush before we begin moving logs." 



The cost of handling the brush in the manner de- 

 scribed, I was told, cost the company last winter about 

 $2.50 a thousand feet. The net cost, Mr. Hartt figured 

 after deducting the amount saved in skidding and other 



There was no doubt but that Mr. Hartt had burned his 

 brush clean. Limb and top material under four or five 

 inches in diameter was little in evidence on the cut over 

 area. The company is cutting to an eight inch top limit 

 and seven inches where the logs are straight. Some ma- 

 terial below this size remained. I was told that the com- 

 pany is endeavoring to work out a plan of utiliziiig this 

 small waste in a distillation plant or otherwise. It has 

 sold some for cordwood and mining timbers, but the local 

 market is limited. Hemlock logs are being barked in the 

 woods and the bark shipped to a tannery. The accom- 

 panying photographs show how the woods look after 

 lumbering is completed. 



Horses Persona Non Grata 



We then went over to where logging oi:)erations were 



'WHEUE LUMBER HA.S GROWN OXCB IT WILL GROW AGAIN," SAID MR. KINGSFORD. THIS IS A SCEJJE IN THE 

 AREA CUT OVER LAST WINTER, SHOWING ABSENCE OF BRUSH, AND YOUNG TIMBER LEFT FOR A SECOND CROP. 



work in the woods, would be from $1.50 to $1.75 cents 

 a thousand feet. 



"But however you look at it, I believe its a paying 

 proposition," declared Mr. Hartt. "If you are going to 

 grow timber on the land, the young forest you've got left 

 is worth the cost and if you are going to sell the land 

 for farming, its worth just that much more for having 

 the brush cleared off of it." 



Out of the Old School Into the New 

 Here was an old-time logging man talking like a 

 forester. Less than a year before, he had been taken 

 out of the old school of timber-faring men who look 

 ujxjn forestry as theoretical bunkum and he had been set 

 up against the task of putting his own logging operation 

 on a forestry basis and making it pay. It was apparent 

 that he had done a lot of thinking and that he was mak- 

 ing progress fas;. 



in progress on another season's cut. Ford tractors were 

 at work pulling stumps and grading the logging roads. 

 Brush was being burned as it was trimmed from the logs 

 and tops. The only place that horses were in evidence 

 was in the skidding and this was being done by contract. 

 Apparently Mr. Ford does not believe in owning horses, 

 but it hasn't yet been established that a tractor can skid 

 logs in the north woods as cheaply as horses. The logs 

 were being decked along the roads, where during the 

 winter they will be loaded on sleighs and hauled to Sid- 

 naw for shipment to the mill at Iron Mountain. 



From the woods to Sidnaw is three and a half to 

 four miles and all log hauling is done by tractors on snow 

 roads. Last winter the company used nine foot sleigh 

 bunks, and averaged 3,000 feet to the load, six loads a 

 day to the tractor. The cost was given me as seventy- 

 five cents a thousand feet. This winter the plan is to 



