CLEARING LAND IN THE LAKE STATES. Oil 
machine mounted on two wheels. This tract had been logged 45 
years before. There were no logs or underbrush. 
The sizes of 98 white-pine stumps selected at random and meas- 
ured on this tract were as follows: 16-inch, 7; 18-inch, 10; 20-inch, 
3; 22-inch, 9; 24-inch, 15; 26-inch, 14; 28-inch, 8; 30-inch, 6; 32- 
inch, 7; 34-inch, 4; 36-inch, 6; 38-inch, 3; 40-inch, 1;-42-inch, 4; 
48-inch, 1. The average diameter was 26.77 inches. 
The high cost of stumping this tract, shown in Table XIII, was 
principally due to the inexperience of the contractor and crew and to 
the fact that only one light team was used. The contract price for 
pulling, cleaning, and tipping the stumps was 50 cents each. The 
actual cost was 56.3 cents. The owner of the tract was utilizing the 
roots for fuel. The total number of stumps was 204 and the macnn 
per acre 28. The number pulled per day was 15. 
TaBLE XIEI.—Cost of stumping tract No. 14.' 
Cost. 
Days em-|_ pata 
Item. ployed. 
Perdiem.| Total. 
Pulling, cleaning, and tipping: 
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Ik Teme! Nymlila Ree HOON = BS clei Ne al omiec Baie ee ei Seo) See ete eee 13% 4.50 59. 62 
Wisekoremlachnim enya nes mage wat. Ae ea URS De ee a UU ee oe Sod phe ek | 13% 1.50 19. 87 
Pilingandaburmings (estimated) 222 52 eee oer on ices tea BO Reus aes ee Se eteais ee 70. 00 
HO) ces ee anaes SS SHBG BEA Str Ral MOSES OC AT ERTS Re eae | ie pe ates eed Bara ave TT al 184. 93 
PANEL CORO C IgG CLO se daa aa we heirs Gage eishis SCR Os Vy Mets RUIN Sais ick NE ee alan ee GC ie 25. 05 
PASVETA GE HDCING CUI Mate eae nee oe aie Socal NE eT eee [son Foeseenl eee Ged ane . 907 
1 Time of stumping, July 19 to Aug. 8, 1913. 
TRACT NO. 15. 
Tract No. 15 contained 40 acres of very gently rolling land, having 
a sandy soil. The clearing was done in the spring of 1912. The 
outfit consisted of a tripod stump puller, two teams, and five men. 
This outfit and crew pulled 2,132 stumps in 204 days, an average of 104 
stumps per day. This tract had an average of 90 stumps per acre, 
of which 20 were Norway pine and 70 were white pine. 
The clearing was done at a contract price of $30 an acre. The price 
included the delivery of the Norway-pine stumps to a turpentine 
plant 3 miles distant from the tract, the hauling of nearly one-third 
of the white-pine stumps to build fences, and: the burning of the re- 
mainder of the white-pine stumps. The Norway-pine stumps had 
been burned to the surface of the ground on nearly 10 acres of this 
tract. A total of 60 cords of Norway-pine stumps was delivered at 
the plant. The price received was $5 per cord of 4,000 pounds. It 
took an average of 10 Norway-pine stumps to the cord. Two cords 
of stumps per acre were obtained. After deducting the amount 
received for the stumps, the net cost of clearing the tract was $900, 
