200 Report of the Forest Commission. 



This rule is in general use in the Adirondack forests, where it 

 seems to give perfect satisfaction to both buyer and seller, lumber- 

 man and log jobber. But the 19 inch, or Glens Falls standard, 

 is not the only one in use there. On the Saranac river the 

 lumbermen use a 22- inch standard. The principle of com- 

 putation, however, is the same, a higher price per standard being 

 paid in such a case for the logs. 



But in the great lumber regions of the Northern States, in 

 Pennsylvania, and in other localities, logs are bought and sold by 

 the thousand feet, log measure. The rules used there are based 

 on the number of feet, board measure, which the log will yield 

 when it is sawed into inch boards. In such a rule, deduction is 

 made for slabs and saw-kerf, and this deduction is much greater 

 in small logs than in medium sized or large ones, the increase in 

 deduction exceeding proportionately the decrease in diameter. 



The scale most in use where logs are bought by log measure is 

 the one tabulated by Edward Boyle, and known as " Doyle's 

 Kule." Another scale computed by J. M. Scribner, known as the 

 Scribner Kule, was also in use until lately. It was generally 

 claimed that Doyle did not allow enough for the contents of 

 small logs, while Scribner allowed too much ; that the product 

 of the saw-mills would overrun the log measurement if the logs 

 were bought by the Doyle rule, and that it would not " hold out" 

 if bought by the Scribner rule. It was further asserted that the 

 Doyle rule, while it did not allow enough for the contents of 

 small logs, gave too much for the large ones ; and that the 

 Scribner rule was just the reverse. The two rules coincide at 24 

 inches. 



But in late years the Doyle rule has come into general use, to 

 the exclusion of the other. Scribner's log book * has adopted 

 the Doyle rule, a book whose popularity is indicated by the 

 publisher's statement that over 1,000,000 copies have been sold. 

 For this reason the Doyle rule has been used in the following 

 tables showing the difference between standard measure and log 

 measure. 



This " standard " rule is peculiar to northern New York, and 

 persons accustomed to the log measure used so generally elsewhere 

 are unable to form any definite idea of quantities where the piece 

 or standard measure is used. When an Adirondack lumberman 



* Published by George W. Fisher, Rochester, N. Y., 1839. 



