No. 4.] 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



341 



Cost Data of Operation on Karlstein Estate. 

 Cutting and piling, based on 82.5 acres; burning, based on 47.5 acres. 

 Total cut: 559 cords of wood, 90 ties, 6,000 feet of pine. In working 

 data this is called the equivalent of 565 cords. 



Per Cord. 



Per Acre. 



Total. 



Wood and brush cutting,' 

 Brush piling, . 

 Brush burning, 

 Other expense,^ 

 Supervision, < . 

 Total, 



SI 07 

 15 

 25 

 04 

 15 



$13 48 



1 00 



1 SO 



25 



1 01 



$1,112 05 



83 00 

 148 10' 



21 00 



84 00 



$2 56 



$17 55 



$1,448 15 2 



1 Includes stacking wood. Brush cutting is estimated at about 8 per cent. 

 - Estimated. 



' Includes saw filing, scaling wood, etc. 



* Includes time spent by foreman in directing men and marking trees, when he was not actu- 

 ally engaged in productive work. 



Other items of expense which are not included are the cost 

 of a camp for the men and of tools which will not greatly 

 exceed $25 in this case. 



In conclusion v,e would say that this department is anxious 

 to get in touch with all the owners of infested woodland in 

 the State, to give them advice and all the help possible in 

 solving the woodland problem. This work cannot be carried 

 on without the help of the owners, who are the parties most 

 vitally affected. 



Forest Mapping. 



This summer a beginning was made in work we have long 

 desired to attempt, namely, the making of an estimate of the 

 acreage of forest of different types and sizes; and, in conjunc- 

 tion with this, work out a forest map on which is shown, so far 

 as practicable, what the land is producing. 



It is possible to hire, in the summer, forest school students 

 who are cheap and efficient men for this purpose. The work 

 was carried out under the direction of Mr. Harold Fay, one of 

 the assistant foresters in the office, who had the assistance of 

 four forestry students, picked men from as many forestry 

 schools. 



As it was not possible, with the means at hand, to cover the 



