. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. P. L. Lyford, Vancouver, B. C. III_|IDM>III«>II^ similarly, finds his way on the pathless sea, that the term "cruiser" was applied to him. It was an apt comparison, and the term "stuck". The quantity of standing timber is usually expressed in board feet, according to the log rule used in the locality con- cerned. There are some exceptions to this, notably the pulp- wood regions of the Eastern United States and Canada, where the c
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1919. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. P. L. Lyford, Vancouver, B. C. III_|IDM>III«>II^ similarly, finds his way on the pathless sea, that the term "cruiser" was applied to him. It was an apt comparison, and the term "stuck". The quantity of standing timber is usually expressed in board feet, according to the log rule used in the locality con- cerned. There are some exceptions to this, notably the pulp- wood regions of the Eastern United States and Canada, where the cord is largely used as a unit of measurement. The cord is also used on the Pacific Coast for ineasuring cedar bolts for shingles. Theoretically the log rule gives the number of board feet that the logs will produce in the form of sawn lumber. In practice, this is rarely the case, because of imperfections in log rules, errors in allowance for defects, or curved, crooked, or broken logs. However, the cruiser must report in board feet, and it is obvious that his results will always be somewhat less than exact. In the early days, (and even now, to some extent), the timber cruiser frequently estimated comparatively small areas by eye, simply wandering through the tract more or less sys- tematically, and making up his mind by comparison with sim- ilar tracts with which he was already familiar that this one would run so many thousand feet to the acre, and multiplying this by the number of acres in the tract to get the total stand of timber. Usually, however, in recent years, practically all cruisers make an estimate of the individual trees on a certain proportion of the area, to furnish averages for applying to the whole area. The details of procedure for most cruisers in determining the scale of a tree is somewhat as follows: Estimate the thickness of the bark, and determine the diameter of the butt of the first log inside the bark. (This is not so easy to do on the Pacific Coast, w
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