28 MISC. PUBLICATION 3 9 5, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Measuring and Estimating Timber 



Aim. — To find out how to measure and estimate timber. 



Sources of information. — Farmers' Bulletin 1210; publications of colleges of 

 agriculture or State foresters; loose-leaf volume tables for most species of conifers, 

 eastern hardwoods and western species, Forest Service; handy sets of log and 



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Figure 22. — 4-H Club member measuring the diameter of a white oak tree (outside the bark and 

 at breast height) with a tape coverted to read diameters in inches. 



tree scale sticks (for northern trees apply to Federal Land Bank, Springfield, 

 Mass.; for southern pines, to American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C); 

 rules for scaling logs on page 38. 



