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MISC. PUBLICATION 



5. U. S. DEFT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Illustrative material. — Timber price lists. Addresses of firms dealing in timber. 

 Local prices for cordwbod, posts, cross ties, and piling. 



Guides :: :::■. ly. — Finding the best markets: Berore timber is cut its approxi- 

 mate size and amount by species and its disposal should be determined as definitely 

 as possible. How to find buyers of cut-timber products. How are logs, bolts or 

 billets, piling, posts, cross ties, and firewood generally sold: Advertising in the 

 newspapers, consulting neighbors who have recently sold timber, consulting State 

 foresters and reliable experienced men. 



Figure 29. — Illustrates what is happening nowadays in the woods. 4-H Club boys in increasing 

 numbers are learning about growing timber as a crop and completing forestry projects. 



The owner sh< aid pn tect himself by a simple form of written contract; much 



loss comes to sellers of timber products by failure to observe this precaution and 

 to have the agreement in proper written form. 



Selling standing timber: Selling ror a stated sum by rhe acre, or a lump sum 

 for the whole tract or "boundary." 



Y\ nat to cut and what timber to keep growing in the woods; what timber to 

 sell and what to use at home. Poles are in strong demand for telephone and 

 transmission lines (fig. 2~ . Choice logs of certain woods bring high prices and 

 can be profitably shipped long distances by rail or water (fig. 26). 



Cooperative marketing or farm timber: Carload lots of logs, etc., the least 

 amount that can profitably be shipped. Many wood manufacturing concerns 

 buy direct from producers in carload lots. A farmer may not have sufficient 

 white oak sawlogs or hickory spoke blocks to make shipment profitable. 



Practical things to do. — Time might well be spent trying to find out what 

 timber is being sold from the local farm woodlands; who is buying it: what stand- 

 ing timber is sold; what cooperative shipping of timber is being done (fig. 29). 



