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fellint; and cunveusiox. 



Mkmm, 



l)lace small poles jind supliiigs in hnndreds, and the larfTcr kinds, 

 iind those for which there is only a moderate demand, such as 

 scaff(dding-poles, ladder-wood, curt-poles, Sec, may he placed in 

 fifties or quarter hundreds. 



They should be placed with their thick ends towards the road 

 between stakes driven into the ground. The smaller kinds — 

 bean-sticks, hurdle-wood, &c. — may be fastened together in lots 

 of 25. Poles maybe conveniently arranged by tens, a small rod 



being placed under 

 F'«- i-''3. the thick ends of 



each ten poles, iu 

 order to facilitate 

 removal (tig. 153). 



3. Stacked Wood. 

 All firewood, and 

 as a rule all branch- 

 wood, cloven-wood, 

 or fascines, should 

 be measured by 

 stacked volume, and therefore piled in regular stacks ; a much 

 more difficult matter than the simple one of piling poles, which 

 must therefore be described in detail. 



(a) Shape and Size of the Stacks. — The stacks of firewood, 

 billets, Arc, are usually rectangular parallelopipeds, of difi'erent 

 dimensions in diilcrent countries ; iu Germany, Switzerland, 

 Austria, France and Italy llie unit is generally a stacked cubic 

 meter {liaiiiiinntcr in German, or atcrc in French*). 



It is, however, usual, even when the wood is measured in 

 stacked cubic meters, to place three or four steres of wood iu a 

 stack approaching in volume to the old customary aueasures ; 

 the usual number is then 3 steres, but 1 and 2 steres are 

 sometimes employed. The normal length of the billets 

 in a stack is 1 meter, but especially in the case of cloven 

 timber this may be varied. The length of the pieces is 

 considered as the width of the stack, and its other dimensions 



* [Iu France, the ordinary -.■ord 9.ft. x 3.^ ft. x 2;; ft. = 3 sti-res. (The French 

 foot = 1 ft. \\ in., English ineaiure). In England, the conl i.s either 2T6 c. 

 feet = 12' X H' X 3' anil is then called a fathom and nearly = ti steres, or 

 108 c. feet = 3 steres, or 72 c. feet = 2 steres, as in Anieriia.--Ti:.] 



