34 FORESTS OF WISCONSIN. 



Classifioation of wood supplies — continued. 



II . Poles, Piling, Tibs, Posts, Etc. 



Million feet 

 B. M. 



Cedar . . 



Tamarack (over 8 in.) 



Jack pine (over 8 in.) . 



Total 



1,300 

 1,600 

 1,700 



4,600 



III. CoBD Wood for Pulp, Publ, Charcoal, Etc. 1, 000 Cords. 



Hemlock 



Jack pine (under 8 in.) . . 

 Tamarack (under 8 in. ) . . 



Spruce 



Balsam 



Totals for conifers. 

 All kinds of liardwood. . . 



5,500 

 3,600 

 3,000 

 1,100 

 800 



14,000 

 60,000 



IV. Sapling Pine under 8 inches about 5 Million Cokds. 



It will be observed that an enormous amount of coniferous 

 material exists which, under present conditions possesses hardly a 

 market value. Most of this material is good both for lumber 

 and pulp and it is to be hoped and expected that its loss hj fire 

 and otherwise will be averted. 



PRESENT ACCRETION OR INCREMENT. 



In North Wisconsin a grove of well grown sapling timber 

 60 years old, of pine, may be assumed to cut at least as much 

 as 15 cords of bolt size material, or about 6 M. feet B. M. per 

 acre. In the old woods as they stand, the trees above sapling 

 size represent the great mass of the wood material and therefore 

 the growth of wood is largely on trees nearly or quite of log 

 size, so that the same amount of growth per acre here adds 



