The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-28
VERMONT MILLS
Are Saving Smaller Logs and More
Hardwoods.

Are Saving Smaller Logs and Nor
Hardwoods
There are some who say that for
estry in Vermont Is unnecessary thai
our forests are growing faster thar
they are cut II this were true It woul.
be no argument against increasing che
forest productivity Of the state ans
more than t would be an argument
against better dairying 70 say that oui
cows are producing milk a. fast as ",
are using IL Unfortunately it i NOT
true, for although the annual cut 81
lumber III the state has remained about
the same for the past twenty-five years
Nj is being 20 maintained By the cut.
ting of small trees and by the substi-
tuition Of aardwoods, Laundering ths
hardwoods has only been made possible
in most districts during the past few
years because Of The growing scarcity
of softwDods throughout the country
and consequent rise in prices Of hard
woods. Many Of the s8wmills Of the
state are now equipped with machinery
for making bobbins, clothes-pins o.
some other small articles. thus enabling
them to utilize the portions Of hard
wood logs which few years ago were
wasted
The state forest service. in order TO
form some accurate idea Of the size Of
the logs now being manufactured, made
study Of two mills, one belonging "a
Mr. knight Of Uuderhill and The other
20 Mr. Wheeler Ia Waterbury. or the
million and half feet % logs ii the
yard Of the UudeFhill min 100000 feet
are hardwoods and 100000 feet soft.
woods OF the latter only about 100
600 feet are spruce. heer at the foot Of
Mansfield, az a mill whose annual cut
Of spruce was q million feet ten years
ago All Of these logs were purchased.
many Of them being hauled ten or
twelve miles, and some of them at least
were from sugar orchards.
A great many logs on the skidways
Of these two mills were measured lust
as they came and represent probably
the average run Of logs in this portion
of the state II not Of the whole state.
OF the apruee logs AZ one mill 70 per
cent were less than 10 inches ID dis
meters p per cent. ll-l5 inchess q per
cent 1920 inches. AT The other mill.
50 per cent were less than 10 inehesi
80 per cent. ll-l5 lnchess IA per cent
1920 inches Out If 300 spruce logs
measured II would only be possible TO
saw two boards 20 inches 80 inches wide
To IL also interesting 10 note that in
the latter mil whore So per cent 81
the spruce logs were less than 10 in
ches these legs only scaled g per cent
of the lumber while the logs 1916 In
ches scaled 20 per cent, and those 1890
inches IS per cent.
While the nemIack logs run some-
what larger than spruce, about the same
obtain namely. So per cent.
less than 10 inohes 33 per cent, IL
rs inches; S per cent 1920 INCHES
per cent, over 20 inches or course the
hardwoods are not sawed SO small and
the biggest proportion Of the logs are
therefore between II and Is inches.
Insofar as the ANAL softwooi logs
represent tops which would have been
wasted ten years ago, mill practice has
improved but most Of these small
logs represent also small trees and
herein lies the explanation 81 the fact
that the lumber cut Of Vermont has
not yet materially dropped al but the
equally evident proof that it VIII drop
of very materially during the next few
years.
If any lumbcrmen Of the state have
records Of the sizes 81 their logs II
past years a comparison Of these sizes
win those Of the present would be very
and the state forester would
be glad TO learn Of such data.