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Hight-foot ties, standard face, 334 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 ties 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 
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. Cordwood 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, forexample, pulp wood, veneer, excelsior, etc. Itis 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. 
