WHITE PIXE UNDER FOREST MAXAGEMEXT. i 
rarely bring over $15 per thousand. They are more expensive to 
handle, and as few as possible are manufactured. 
For match blocks clear, straight-grained lumber is required. As 
in box making, lumber 2 J inches thick is the standard for match 
manufacture. It usually commands a price of $17 or $18 a thousand. 
Second-growth stands yield a small amount of material clear enough 
for match bolts. Match companies usually accept 2J-inch round- 
edged lumber without careful grading, and dispose of the material 
unsuited for match blocks (often 70 or SO per cent of the total) for 
boxes. 
But little lumber clear and straight enough for sashes and blinds 
is produced hi the average "pasture-pine" stand less than 60 or 70 
years old. On good soils, however, the more rapid growing trees may 
yield clear, straight pieces long enough for the purpose. Such lum- 
ber, round edged and If or If inches thick, may command a price of 
from $25 to $35 a thousand, provided the clear lengths are 2 or more 
feet long and the knots small. 
Square-edged second-growth pine timber 1 inch thick usually brings 
from $20 to $25 hi the local markets, but the "waste and expense 
involved hi edging nearly or quite offset the difference hi price as 
compared with round-edged box boards. The waste hi edging is 
usually from 10 to 20 per cent, since the boards must have parallel 
edges, while in box lumber a considerable proportion of crooked boards 
is accepted. One-inch square-edged lumber is comparable to the 
standard grade of Xo. 2 common. It usually varies widely hi quality. 
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE-PINE STANDS. 
OLD GROWTH. 
. A characteristic of the original white-pine forests which contributed 
largely to their commercial importance was their great age. The 
majority of the stands cut were from 200 to 300 years old. The trees 
in such stands were often from 150 to 200 feet high and from 4 to 7 
feet hi diameter, and produced lumber of the largest size, practically 
free from knots and other defects. In 1700, New Hampshire lumber- 
men were able to supply white-pine planks 25 feet long and 15 and 
18 inches wide, and ship-dock material 36 feet long and 3 feet wide. 
In the Lake States single acres sometimes yielded 75,000 and occa- 
sionally 100,000 board feet, and entire "fortys" often averaged 50,000 
feet per acre. Townships have been known to yield 400,000,000 board 
feet, or an average of about 18,000 feet per acre. Such yields were. 
of course, obtainable only where the forest was pure and practically 
unbroken, but even in rough country and in stands not exclusively 
of pine the large size of the individual trees often resulted in high 
yields. 
