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Lumber in a Cord of Wood 
I was talkiug with a man in regard to 
probable stump age of some lumber. He 
offered me .$•:> a cord for it. and I told 
him that I could get more selling it by 
tlie thousand. lie said that it took a 
little more than three cords for the thou¬ 
sand. so that his figures would amount 
to the same as I could get by the thou¬ 
sand, which was $10. Will you tell mo 
how many cords of wood if takes to make 
a thousand, and how to figure it?. 
Brownville, Me. jl n. 
Definite figures are impossible to give, 
owing to the fact that each cord will saw 
up varying amounts, according to the size 
of the sticks which make it up. Of course 
it would he impracticable to expect to 
saw wood which is much less than six 
inches in diameter at the small end. 
The information which we have at hand 
from different parts of the country illus¬ 
trates a variety of results. All of them, 
however, are considerably larger than the 
estimate of three cords to a thousand, 
which your man made to you. One man 
from Minnesota reports that he has cut 
502 cords of holts running from six inches 
in diameter to 18 inches in diameter. 
These were basswood, cut 54 inches long. 
Therefore the cords were 4^x4x8 feet. 
The bolts were cut into lumber with a 
circular saw, and all boards were trim- 
mod and edged. Tlie stock was cut into 
inch boards thick enough so that when 
they were dry they would he a full inch 
in thickness. These 501! cords average 
502 board feet of lumber per cord. Inas¬ 
much as a standard cord 4x4x8 feet is 
OS.S per cent of the cord in this illustra¬ 
tion, it would, under sin ilar circum¬ 
stances, produce f>20 board feet. Other 
less detailed sources of information state 
that one man was able t<- saw 700 board 
feet from a cord of six-iucli >tuff and 025 
board feet from a cord of five-inch stuff. 
This wood was used for box lumber. The 
American Lumberman remarks that tin¬ 
ier ordinary conditions a fair estimate is 
550 board feet per cord. Incidentally, 
this is the ratio which the T\ 8. Forest 
Service uses. 
As you note from the above examples, 
there is no rule from which you figure 
cords into board feet. A standard cord 
contains 128 cubic feet, but part of this 
is contained iu tlie air spaces between 
the sticks. An average cord of straight 
pine or spruce will contain about 00 cubic 
feet of wood. Under ordinary conditions 
of sawing when kerf or slab is excluded 
it is difficult to get more than six board 
feet from one cubic foot of logs. This 
method of figuring compares favorably 
with the average suggested by the Amer¬ 
ican Lumberman. A log of larger diam¬ 
eter will, of course, cut a higher per¬ 
centage *of lumber than those of small 
diameter. G. it. o. 
Trimming Maple Trees 
When is the host time of year to trim 
hard maple shade trees, that is. to cut 
off the- lower limbs ;i ih1 raise the body 
of the tree? T would like to do it this 
Spring it it will not cause the sap to run 
too much and injure the tree. J. E. r. 
Mayville, N. Y. 
On some accounts it might have been 
bettor bad those trees 'been pruned last 
Fall, but the advantage is so slight and 
so largely theoretical that I would not 
advise waiting until another Fall before 
doing the work. It is not at all likely that 
enough branches will be removed to 
amount, in comparison with those that 
remain, to more than a scratch on a 
man’s hand. The loss of sap by bleeding 
will not injure them in the least, though 
a severe pruning while in full leaf might 
do so. But bear this well in mind : If 
the trees are of such size that the lower 
branches are large and have assumed a 
horizontal position, it is only in very 
exceptional instances that such branches 
can be removed without seriously inter¬ 
fering with the shape of the tree. Study 
the trees before you touch them with a 
saw. Notice that from the lower side of 
each of these lateral limbs smaller 
branches appear, and 'bend towards the 
ground in an attempt to reach the light. 
8ec if the removal of these will not raise 
the head sufficiently to answer ordinary 
purposes. Tf not. it may be better to 
endure a little inconvenience rather than 
permanently to disfigure the trees. There 
are several sides to the problem, and 
study all of them carefully before you 
cm work that you may regret when you 
see the results. c. o. ormsbee. 
Asparagus in Orchards 
Having read several articles in 5 
L. A.A . about not growing nsparagm 
orchards. I thought l would tell yon 
tlie good success I have in putting 
paragus among an apple orchard. Q 
a lew years ago I had an old apple 
. a , ‘ dead, which I dug up. 
'•' in a few trees, turning into a heuvi 
A lew years later I put down a bee 
asparagus, and a year or so afterw; 
p anted young apple trees among 
both are now doing well. ' 
‘““PM* is under the old at 
" T u ,eli are still bearing. Ev 
il s if / let ,. Iuy yoons Chicks run < 
tlmSr. « eatu,g th, ‘ ia^ct- and keei 
! . , yo»«8 weeds. The soil is sat 
'ft a <11J0 chicken yard, as it is c 
Id Of r r00Sts - 1 « lso b: ‘ve a sepa. 
! ,5 asparagus and a young apple 
Th s conu ay J roui tbe farm buildii 
to inv ” at v U ° f 1 would ad 
r*™° t C| , us xt ">cans profit. 
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