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Eight-foot ties, standard face, 33J board feet each, may be 

 used, or 30 ties to the thousand; 8-foot ties, second class, and 

 6-foot ties, standard face, 25 board feet each, or 40 ti^<=^ to the 

 thousand. 



Shake and single-bolt material will be measured by the cord or 

 by the thousand feet board measure, in accordance with the local 

 custom. As a rule, a cord of shingle bolts may be considered 

 equal to 700 feet board measure. 



Lagging may be measured by the cord or linear foot, or by the 

 piece, or, where split lagging is used, by the board feet, each cubic 

 ^W foot counting as 12 board feet. 



Poles, posts, piles, converter poles, telephone poles, and stulls 

 may be scaled, sold by the linear foot, or sold by the piece, as 

 circumstances warrant. 



When scaled, each stick of timbers, ties, posts, poles, or piles 

 ' must be stamped on at least one end. Cord wood must be stamped 

 . at both top and bottom of each pile and at least twelve pieces in 

 each cord must be stamped. 



In large sales, a record of the scale of each log must be kept on 

 file in the office of the supervisor in the book in which it was 

 originally entered. It will be open to inspection by the pur- 

 chaser at all times, but only in the presence of the supervisor or 

 an officer from the district office. 



CUBIC MEASURE. 



'^ The use of the cubic foot as a unit of volume in this country has so 

 far been chiefly confined to the measurement of square timber and 

 precious woods and to scientific work in forestry. The cubic foot 

 is the logical and most convenient unit for the measurement of logs 

 which are wholly used or in which the waste is exceedingly small, 

 as, for example, pulp wood, veneer, excelsior, etc . It is obvious that 

 in such cases a unit of measure should be adopted, which will show 

 the full contents of the log. It is unreasonable to measure pulp 

 wood in terms of manufactured lumber. The recent action of the 

 Committee on the Measurement of Logs in Maine that advocated 

 the cubic foot for the measurement of all logs indicates that practi- 



,^cal men appreciate the inappropriateness of the old methods of 

 measurement. 



