58 



NATIONAL FOREST MANUA1 



-TIMBER SALES. 



Ties may be sold by the piece, actually scaled, or counted and the 



Tieg number multiplied by the average contents, as the 



contract provides. The following ratios may be used : 



Eight-foot ties, standard face, 33 J board feet each, may be used, or 



30 ties to the thousand; 8-foot ties, second class, and 6-foot ties, 



standard face, 25 board feet each, or 40 ties to the thousand. 



Shake and shingle-bolt material will be measured by the cord or 

 by the thousand feet board measure, in accordance 



^ Shakes and bingle ^^ locftl custom _ Ag ft mle & cord Q f jingle bolts 



may be considered equal to 600 feet b. m. 



Lagging may be measured by the cord or linear foot or by the 

 Lagging piece, or where split lagging is used by the board foot, 



each cubic foot counting as 12 board feet. 



Poles, posts, piles, converter poles, telephone poles, and stulls may 

 poles posts etc . sca ^ e( ij so ^ by the linear foot, or sold by the 



piece, as circumstances warrant. 



When scaled, each stick of timbers, ties, posts, poles, or piles must 



stamping material ^ e stamped on at least one end. Cordwood must 



other than saw tim- be stamped at both top and bottom of each pile 



and at least 12 pieces in each cord must be stamped. 



In check scaling as many logs as practicable will be scaled after 



check scaiin they have been scaled by the officer in charge and 



without knowing his scale. The check will then be 



compared with the original scale. The log numbers of the original 



scale, as well as the length of logs, will in each case be recorded in 



the check sealer's book and the pages cut out and filed in the 



supervisor's office, or, when necessary, forwarded to the district 



forester through the supervisor, with the check sealer's report. 



Check-scale figures may be in the following form : 



Any feasible plan may be adopted by supervisors to permit the 

 checmng of the count or measurement of material other than saw 

 timber. 



Logs may be followed through the mill to determine how they 

 "open up," but regular mill-scale studies as a check 



Mill-scale studies. *.-, 1 ' * 3 -i i i i J.T 



on the scale are rarely advisable, since there are too 

 many variable factors which influence the mill output. 



SALE OF MISCELLANEOUS FOREST PRODUCTS. 



The sale of wild seedlings and Christmas trees, where the value is 

 less than $100, and such products as cascara bark and turpentine 

 will ordinarily be conducted by the supervisor under directions from 

 the Forester or district forester. 



