BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 383 
For many years I was engaged in buying large quantities of pine 
trees; and as the custom was at that time, I bought them on the 
stump, in many cases by the measured acre. It was my practice 
to hire the logs drawn to the mill by the cord of 128 cubic feet; 
each load was measured by a sworn surveyor, and the boards, 
after being sawed, were also measured by a sworn surveyor; thus 
I was able to get at positive results. It may be of some interest 
to Mr. Fernow to know that 128 cubic feet of logs, measuring 
from seven to fifteen inches in diameter (a fair proportion of each 
as they average), will make one thousand feet of five-eighth inch 
box-boards (surface measurement), and that I have frequently 
got more than sixty thousand feet from an acre of land. 
As I am accused of making ‘‘ rosy” statements, perhaps an 
effort may be made to discredit this one, unless it is sustained 
by the testimony of practical men whose words it would be 
useless to try to discredit in the localities where they are 
known. The following citations are from letters addressed to 
me by practical men in Plymouth County in response to my 
inquiries. 
Mr. Charles H. Dwelley of West Hanover, Mass., testifies as 
follows, — 
‘«T have cut two hundred cords of pine timber from two acres of 
land; the trees had been growing fifty years. I do not think that the 
gain had been anything for ten years previous to cutting; the loss by 
dead trees was equal to the growth made by the living. I cut from 
the same lot, before the two hundred cords above stated were cut, 
thirty cords of decayed trees, twenty cords of which were large 
enough for box-logs. I carted to the mill owned by E. Y. Perry, 
fifty-three cords of logs surveyed on the wagon, and the return from 
the mill was fifty-three thousand and fifty-eight feet of five-eighth 
inch box-boards.” | 
Mr. Frank Stockbridge of Hanover, Mass., says, — 
«Two years ago, I cut off two acres of average pines of thirty 
years’ growth that produced one hundred thousand feet of five-eighth 
inch boards.” 
He also says, — 
‘« A cord of logs will produce on an average one thousand feet of 
box-boards, and sometimes twelve hundred feet, depending on size 
and quality of logs.” 
