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A MANUAL FOR NORTHERN WOODSMEN 
Examination Lot... J. _ Sec._ 29 _ 
C. L. 
12-1 
12-2 
13-1 
13-2 
13- 3 
14- 1 
14-2 
14- 3 
15- 1 
, 15-2 
15- 3 
16- 1 
16-2 
16-3 
16-4 
As soon as the assistant reports that he is ready I take the 
nearest tree and put the calipers upon it at a point where it would 
be cut in ordinary logging operations. 1 then walk around the tree 
and “ size it up ” generally to find any defect that may exist, also 
to judge how many 16-ft. logs would be cut from this particular 
tree. Suppose it is a maple and that it calipers 22 inches, and that 
it will yield a 48-ft. stem or three 16-ft. logs. I call to my pacer 
“Maple, 22 —3,” and he tallies in the maple column opposite the 
22 —3 of the figures in the left-hand margin of the page. In this 
way we get a record of every tree in a strip 4 rods wide, 2 rods each 
side of our compass fine. My caliper blade is graduated to 57 
inches from the stationary arm, just 7 th of two rods, and if there is 
any question as to a tree’s being in the strip it is very quickly set¬ 
tled by taking seven lengths of the caliper blade as I walk toward 
the tree from the compass line. 
Having taken the trees to a point a little in advance of my as¬ 
sistant, he proceeds on for 50 paces more and the calipering process 
is repeated. If the undergrowth is of sufficient density to prevent 
our seeing any large pine, bit of cedar swamp, or anything else 
that we should see, we make frequent explorations from the end 
of each 100 steps, my assistant going in one direction at the same 
time that I go in the opposite. No trees are measured in these 
side explorations unless we find something that is not common to 
the entire tract. Having returned to our line we proceed north, 
halting at each 50 steps to take the timber, also to note any ridges, 
logging roads, streams, springs, or other points that should appear 
in the report. When we have arrived at 500 paces my assistant 
changes his tally to lot 9 and we proceed north in the same way, 
changing at 1000 paces to lot 8 and at 1500 to lot 1 . At 2000 
paces, if the section is “full” we should be at the north line of tile 
section, at a point 20 rods west of the northeast corner. As it 
rarely occurs that our compass fine has been so accurate as to 
bring us out at exactly this point, we find the mark made during 
Mad© by. _ _ May, 1908.. 
Maple 
Bass 
Beech 
Hemlock 
III 
48 
160- 
1 
II 
19 
64 
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' ISO 
400 
1 
50 
th 
mu 
450 
1 
50 
III 
j' 
440 
1 
110 
1 
1 
10 
III 
t& 
'IHII 
216 
1320 
III 
390 
1 
II 
72 
40 
M 
n! 
II 
J IHj 1 
III 
864 
2520 
1 
j 
80 
II , 
III 
1 
576 
540 
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