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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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4 to 3 trees = 1000 feet, B. M. In Wisconsin, 3 to 4 trees = 1000 feet, B. M. Pulpwood.4 to 8 trees = 1 cord. 1 tall tree, 18 inches inside the bark = 1 cord. Cedar.The thickest cedars are used for shingle bolts, the longest for telegraph poles.The smallest stuff is used as fence posts. For railroad ties cedar is objectionableas it does not hold the spikes well. Shingle Bolts.6 trees = 1 cord. TclcgrapJi Poles. Diameter at top, 4 to 8 inches, and sound. Length = 25 to 40 feet. Fence Posts.Length = 6 feet. Birch. In a general way birch will run about as follows: — Cutting only trees 12 inches and over at the base, 6 trees = 1000 feet, B. M. 8 trees, cutting to 10 inches at the base = 1000 feet, B. M. 1 tree = \y2 logs, 16 feet long. MAFLE. Maple is very much subject to defects and is, therefore, difficult to estimate. Cutting to a 12-inch diameter limit, 8 trees = 1000 feet, B. M. 1 tree = \l/2 logs, 16 feet long.
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bo be £ B S .S- H O O <H O LO< a. Ou CJ<D E.2■5 boS3 a, FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. /I Beech. Beech will give little more than I log, 16 feet long to each tree. Cutting to a 12-inch diameter limit, 12 trees = iooo feet, B. M. Ash, elm, basswood, and black cherry are found in the Adirondacks, but in suchsmall numbers that little attention is given to them in estimating. The degree of accuracy reached with the strip method will depend upon thedistance between the parallel strips ; the less the distance, the greater the degree ofaccuracy. Where only a small degree of inaccuracy is allowable, the strips may berun adjacent to each other, in which case all the trees of the stand would becounted. Each strip may then be from 10 to 20 rods wide. Many estimators, instead of counting the trees and then estimating the numberof logs, and finally the volume, estimate the volume of the individual trees at once. According to trials which Ihrig has made in Germany in estimating the v

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