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detail plan starts with the ''timber sale" actually consumated. But 

 in these cases, too, it is almost a necessity to have a convenient 

 record or tabular statement which shows to the forester and owner 

 at any time, the exact status of utilization. This statement takes 

 the place of the above form of detail plan. Where quite a number 

 of sales are in progress, the following form has been found very 

 convenient. It divides the information into three parts : 



a. A simple and brief table which serves as the Detail Plan 

 proper. 



b. A map or township plat on which the sales are indicated, 

 to go with the above table. 



c. A separate table for each sale, to file with the particular 

 sale case, contract, scale records, etc. 



The tabular plan (a) gives the following information: number 

 of sale, name and address of purchaser, location of timber, amount 

 of timber, kind and price of timber, date of contract, date when 

 closed, amount of timber cut under this contract and value of timber. 

 Where a sale goes over to another year, the number is kept, and the 

 record shows the cut and income for the year. A new table is pre- 

 pared each year. 



The sheet to go with the sale case itself may well take approxi- 

 mately the old form of the detail plan of cutting. It should enumer- 

 ate the lots or areas to he cut, the estimate for each, the method of 

 silviculture, the date (month) when any particular tract is finished 

 and the total cut from this tract. 



This plan of cutting in a particular sale can take about the fol- 

 lowing form : 



Sale No. 17. 



Name of purchaser : John Doe. 



Address: Doeville. 



Amount of sales: 150 million ft. b. m. 



Date of contract: Sept. 10. 1913. 



Life of contract: 15 years. 



Silvicultural method, or rules for marking the timber: selection 

 method taking only stuff over 16" d. b. h., defective or sound ; leav- 

 ing generally 60% of total volume of the stand, and cutting clear 



