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BULLETIN" 234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 10. — Total cost of production, market price, and net profit for lodgepole-pine 
stulls, converter poles , lagging poles, andcordwood, Deerlodge National Forest, Mont. 
Size. 
Market price. 3 
Price at 
which 
square 
timber 
must 
Per 
Cost 
sell per 
cent of 
of pro- 
Profit 
thou- 
sand 
board 
feet in 
Butte 
to equal 
Product. 
Length. 
Top 
di- 
ame- 
ter. 
entire 
cut by 
pieces. 1 
duc- 
tion per 
piece. 2 
Per 
piece. 
Per 
cubic 
foot. 
Per 
1,000 
board 
feet. ^ 
per 
piece. 
round 
in price 
per cu- 
bic foot. 
Feet. 
In. 
Stulls 
14 
5 
6 
18.24 
16.76 
$0.25 
.32 
$0.28 
.36 
•SO. 03 
'so.'ioo" 
"S36.'66" 
.04 
'S8."33 
7 
7.19 
.40 
.50 
.in 
25.00 
.10 
9.25 
8 
4.30 
.55 
.71 
.118 
35.50 
.16 
9.84 
9 
1.85 
.63 
.85 
.112 
28.33 
.22 
9.33 
10 
.86 
.71 
1.00 
.106 
25.00 
.29 
8.84 
11 
• .39 
.79 
1.14 
.100 
22.80 
.35 
8.33 
12 
.37 
.93 
1.41 • 
.105 
20.13 
.48 
8.75 
13 
.12 
1.02 
1.55 
.099 
19.37 
.53 
8.25 
14 
.07 
1.16 
1.72 
.096 
17.20 
.56 
8.00 
15 
.04 
1.32 
1.90 
.094 
15.83 
.58 
7.73 
16 
.02 
1.45 
2.07 
.091 
14.78 
. .62 
7.58 
17 
.01 
1.61 
2.25 
.088 
14.06 
.64 
7.33 
18 
.005 
1.82 
2.46 
.086 
12.94 
.64 
7.16 
16 
6 
10.42 
.41 
.45 
.102 
22.50 
.04 
8.50 
7 
11.12 
.51 
.59 
.102 
19.67 
.06 
8.50 
8 
10.09 
.65 
.86 
.116 
28. 67 
.21 
9.67 
9 
7.18 
.73 
1.00 
.109 
25.00 
.27 
9.09 
10 
4,74 
.86 
1.18 
.104 
19.67 
.32 
8.67 
11 
2.76 
.95 
1.33 
.099 
19.00 
.38 
8.25 
12 
1. 69 
1.05 
1.45 
.091 
18.12 
.40 
7.58 
13 
.89 
1.19 
1.63 
.089 
16.30 
.44 
7.42 
14 
.43 
1.28 
1.76 
.084 
16.00 
.48 
7.00 
15 
.22 
1.49 
1.98 
.084 
14.13 
.49 
7.00 
16 
.12 
1.64 
2.15 
.081 
13.43 
.51 
6.75 
17 
.06 
1.82 
2.33 
.078 
12.94 
.51 
6.50 
18 
.05 
1.98 
2.54 
.076 
12.09 
.56 
6.35 
Converter poles k 
24 
3| 
.385 
.385 
.123 
.015 
Lagging poles 
16 
2 
. .115 
.12 
.12 
.005 
Cordwood 
56 
4.85 
5.00 
.063 
.15 

1 Based on 262,621 pieces scaled in 1910-11. 
2 From Table 8. 
a At the rocker stull framing plant, near Butte, for the stulls; at the Anaconda smelter for the converter 
poles; and at Butte for the lagging poles and cordwood, etc. 
* Derived from the figures per piece by using the contents in board feet of pieces of different sizes given 
in Table 5. 
& Average. 
The stumpage price per piece shown in Table 9 is equivalent to 
one of $4 per thousand board feet. This price has been hi effect for 
several years in the principal sales on the Deerlodge National Forest. 
When the prices for the various products were reduced to a cubic- 
foot basis, however, considerable irregularity was disclosed. Small- 
dimension material, for which the demand is relatively light, was 
bringing a higher price per cubic foot than the larger-dimension 
material, for which the demand is great and which takes longer and 
is more expensive to produce. Since the timber was not being sold 
for lumber nor actually scaled by the Decimal C rule, it was con- 
sidered advisable to adopt a set of piece-rate prices, based on cubic- 
foot contents and increasing with the diameter and length of the 
