TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Part I 



THE MEASUREMENT OF FELLED TIMBER AND ITS 



PRODUCTS 



CHAPTER I 

 INTRODUCTION TO FOREST MENSURATION 



PAGE 



1. Definition and Purpose 1 



2. Relation between Lumbering and Timber Estimating 2 



3. Relation between Forestry and Growth Measurements 2 



4. Relation between Forest Mensuration, Stumpage Values and the Valuation 



of Forest Property 3 



5. Relation of Mensuration to other Forestry Subjects 3 



6. Absolute versus Relative Accuracy in Mensuration 3 



7. Forest Survey 5 



CHAPTER II 

 SYSTEMS AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT 



8. Systems of Measurement used in Forest Mensuration 6 



9. Piece Measure 7 



10. Cord Measure 7 



11. Cubic Measure 8 



12. Board Measure 8 



13. Log Rules 8 



14. Measurement of Standing Timber Postponed till after Manufacture 8 



16. Measurement of Standing Timber Postponed till after Logging 9 



16. Measurement of Standing Timber in the Tree 9 



17. Need of Standardization for both Commercial and Scientific Measurements. 10 



18. Forms of Products into which the Contents of Trees are Converted 11 



19. The Factor of Waste in Manufacture 13 



20. Actual versus Superficial Contents of Sawed Lumber 13 



21. Round-edged Lumber , 14 



22. Products made from Bolts and Billets 14 



CHAPTER III 

 THE MEASUREMENT OF LOGS. CUBIC CONTENTS 



23. Total versus Merchantable Contents 16 



24. Log Lengths 16 



26. Diameters and Areas of Cross Sections 17 



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