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



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

 Local prices tor cordwood, posts, cross ties, and piling. 



Guides to study. — Finding the best markets: Before 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 should protect himseli by a simple form of written contract; much 

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

 to have the agreement in proper written form. 



Selling standing timber: Selling for a stated sum by the acre, or a lump sum 

 for the w^hole tract or "boundary." 



What 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 tor telephone and 

 transmission lines (fig. 27). Choice logs of certain woods bring high prices and 

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



Cooperative marketing of 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 sut^cient 

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



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

 tim.ber 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). 



