







116 THE WOODSMAN’S HANDBOOK. 
of estimating timber, which vary in detail with different cruisers, 
have been developed. The method described in the following 
paragraph is used by a Michigan cruiser and is given as a typical 
example: 
A METHOD OF CRUISING USED IN MICHIGAN. 
In Michigan the land has been subdivided into square quarter 
sections of 160 acres, each of which is further divided into plots 
of 40 acres. <A ‘‘forty’’ is 80 rods square. The cruiser who uses 

125 paces 
Fig. 1.—Diagram of a Michigan method of cruising. 
the method now to be described has found by trial that 500 of 
his natural paces are required to go 80 rods. He begins at the 
corner of a ‘‘forty,’’ say at the southeast corner, and steps off 125 | 
paces on the south line, and so covers one-quarter of the side of | 
the ‘‘forty.’’ (See fig. 1.) He then stops and, facing north, 
counts the trees first to an estimated distance of 125 paces on the 
right hand, and then to an estimated distance of 125 paces on 
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