The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-28
MODEL NUMBERING.
United States Government Prepares to
Give Demonstration.

Two models which show how the gov
eminent sells its timber have just been
prepared in Washington, for display at
the forest products exposition, to be
held in Chicago April 80 to May 8 and
in New York May 20 to 30. These
models represent an acre of western yell
low pine land in a national forest of the
southwest before and after logging.
In the model showing the stand be-
fore the lumberman goes into it the
trees range from those only few years
old to large, overmature, stag headed
individuals more than ready for the ak.
In the second model the mature trees
and all others larger than a certain
diameter have been cut down and made
into logs and cordwood. In this, as in
all government sales, the stumps are cut
low to avoid unnecessary waste, logs are
taken TO small diameter well up into
the tree, and such material as is not fit
for lumber is converted into eordwood.
Together, the models show the care
which the government requires of lum-
bermen in telling old trees so that the
young growth is not injured. The brush
is piled in heaps for burning after the
lumber has been removed, in order that
the fire menace which foresters say
usually follows numbering may be done
away with. The models are on scale of
about one-inch to five feet, so that trees
approximately 100 feet tall are about 20
inches high in the models.
1t is the intention of the forest service
to have these models set forth certain
points in regard to the timber sales con-
Quoted by the government. They will
demonstrate. in the first place, that the
timber on the national forests is for
use; placards tell how it is sold to the
highest bidder when it is wanted for
commercial purposes, and how it may be
given away to local settlers and pros
pectors for developing homesteads or
mines. The models themselves indicate
that the timber is cut in such way as
to eliminate all available waste of wood
and to secure a continuance of the forest
crop, not only for timber production but
for the protection of the soil. They fur
Their show the fundamental principles
applicable to many logging operations,
that the mature and over mature trees
should be removed, that thriftily grow
ing young trees should be left to pro-
duce seed and insure a reproduction of
the stand, and that the young growth
should be protected from damage in
numbering operations.
The models are supplemented by a
graphic chart, which shows by pictured
piles of money and by conventional trees
of graded size the increase of timber
sales on the national forests from 1905
to 1913, inclusive. In 1905 the timber
sold from the national forests aggre-
gated 96,000,000 board feet, which
brought the government no more than
$4,000. Three years later the amount
of timber sold increased to nearly $780,
100000 board feet, and the money received
rose to $735,000. In 1911 s30,000,000
board feet sold for more than 100000,
and in 1913 more than 2,000,000,000 feet
brought in contracts amounting to S4,-
100000. Not all this money was re-
ceived in any one year, because national
forest timber is sold on contracts which
range from one to twenty-five years,
and it is paid for as cut.