﻿WHITE PINE UNDER FOREST MANAGEMENT. / 



rarely bring over $15 per thousand. They are more expensive to 

 handle, and as few as possible are manufactured. 



For match blocks clear, straight-grained lumber is required. As 

 in box making, lumber 2\ inches thick is the standard for match 

 manufacture. It usually commands a price of $17 or $18 a thousand. 

 Second-growth stands yield a small amount of material clear enough 

 for match bolts. Match companies usually accept 2|-inch round- 

 edged lumber without careful grading, and dispose of the material 

 unsuited for match blocks (often 70 or SO per cent of the total) for 

 boxes. 



But little lumber clear and straight enough for sashes and blinds 

 is produced in the average "pasture-pine" stand less than 60 or 70 

 years old. On good soils, however, the more rapid growing trees may 

 yield clear, straight pieces long enough for the purpose. Such lum- 

 ber, round edged and If or If inches thick, may command a price of 

 from $25 to $35 a thousand, provided the clear lengths are 2 or more 

 feet long arid the knots small. 



Square-edged second-growth pine timber 1 inch thick usually brings 

 from $20 to $25 in the local markets, but the waste and expense 

 involved in edging nearly or quite offset the difference in price as 

 compared with round-edged box boards. The waste in edging is 

 usually from 10 to 20 per cent, since the boards must have parallel 

 edges, while in box lumber a considerable proportion of crooked boards 

 is accepted. One-inch square-edged lumber is comparable to the 

 standard grade of No. 2 common. It usually varies widely in quality. 



GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE-PINE STANDS. 



OLD GROWTH. 



A characteristic of the original white-pine forests which contributed 

 largely to their commercial importance was their great age. The 

 majority of the stands cut were from 200 to 300 years old. The trees 

 in such stands were often from 150 to 200 feet high and from 4 to 7 

 feet in diameter, and produced lumber of the largest size, practically 

 free from knots and other defects. In 1700, New Hampshire lumber- 

 men were able to supply white-pine planks 25 feet long and 15 and 

 18 inches wide, and ship-dock material 36 feet long and 3 feet wide. 

 In the Lake States single acres sometimes yielded 75,000 and occa- 

 sionally 100,000 board feet, and entire "fortys" often averaged 50,000 

 feet per acre. Townships have been known to yield 400,000,000 board 

 feet, or an average of about 18,000 feet per acre. Such yields were, 

 of course, obtainable only where the forest was pure and practically 

 unbroken, but even in rough country and in stands not exclusively 

 of pine the large size of the individual trees often resulted in high 

 yields. 



