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were to be cut to a lo-inch diameter limit, as there would be a much 

 smaller number of tops from which to cut the limbs. The cost should not 

 be above 3 cents per standard, or 15 cents per i 000 feet B. M., and the 

 lopping should be thoroughly done for that sum. 



A little care exercised in the proper felling of a tree makes a decided 

 difference in the work of lopping tops. If the tops are lopped immediately 

 after the tree is felled, before other trees are felled upon it, the work can be 

 done much more cheaply and with more safety to the young growth than 

 if the lopping is made a separate job to be done after the cutting is com- 

 pleted. Later there will be many slashes, the cleaning out of which 

 will add materially to the cost of lopping. 



Methods Preferable for Cutting Roads to the Lake. 



The logging roads to the lake should reach the water as near the backs 

 of the bays and the mouths of the inlets as practicable. No roads cut 

 through the reserved strip along the lake front shovild be wider than is 

 absolutely necessary to allow the passage of one loaded team at a time. 

 No logs whatever should be skidded upon the shores of the lake. It would 

 be impossible to allow the clearing out of a space large enough for the skid- 

 ways and the consequent cutting of skidding roads and trails without caus- 

 ing more or less of an opening on the lake shore, which can just as well be 

 avoided. Any roads which must be brought out at points where there are 

 no streams coming into the lake should be made to come out to the lake 

 with as short a curve as possible, and never in a straight line. The short 

 curve will break the view of the cutting up the road, except for a very short 

 distance, and will prevent it from being seen from the lake. 



A little care in bringing out the roads properly and in keeping skid- 

 ways away from the lake shores w'ill prevent the lumbering from offending 

 tourists and the summer traveling public, as well as the residents around the 

 lake, who might not at first clearly understand its purpose and result. The 

 proper arrangement of the shore end of the roads is as necessary to preserve 

 the beauty of the landscape as the leaving of reserve strips along the lake 

 shore. 



Scale Rule Advised. 



The 19-inch Standard Rule has been the basis for all estimates of the 

 softwood timber on Township 40. This rule gives the contents of 

 all logs in terms of a standard log, 13 feet long and 19 inches in diameter 



