. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 20 BULLETIN 91, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Table XII.— Cost of stumping tract No. 12.' It Pulling, cleaning, and tipping stumps: 2 men, 24 days each 2 men with teams, 24 days Use of machine '. Piling and burning (estimated) Total Average per acre Average per stump. Days em- ployed. Cost. Per diem. Total. SI. 75 ? .32 1 Stumped in the spring of 1913. TRACT NO. 13. Tract No. 13 contained 20 acres of practically level pasture land having a sandy, and in places
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 20 BULLETIN 91, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Table XII.— Cost of stumping tract No. 12.' It Pulling, cleaning, and tipping stumps: 2 men, 24 days each 2 men with teams, 24 days Use of machine '. Piling and burning (estimated) Total Average per acre Average per stump. Days em- ployed. Cost. Per diem. Total. SI. 75 ? .32 1 Stumped in the spring of 1913. TRACT NO. 13. Tract No. 13 contained 20 acres of practically level pasture land having a sandy, and in places a gravelly, surface soil. The subsoil was generally below root depth. This land had been logged 25 years before. There were no logs or underbrush. The outfit used was a tri- pod stump puller. Stumps to the number of 1,293 were pulled, piled, and burned at a contract price of $500, or cents per stump. By means of the tripod piler shown in figure 10 all these stumps were put into four piles. The stumps were pulled in November, 1912. The sizes of 98 white-pine stumps selected at random and meas- ured on this tract were as follows: 12-inch, 6; 14-inch, 8; 16-inch, 8; 18-inch, 5; 20-inch, 10; 22-inch, 16; 24-inch, 16; 26-inch, 11; 28-inch, 5; 30-inch, 8; 32-inch, 2; 34-inch, 1; 38-inch, 2. The average diameter was inches. Several other owners in this neighborhood had contracted to have stumps pulled, cleaned, and tipped for 25 cents each. The general clearing conditions on these contracts were the same as for tract No. 10. TRACT NO. 14. Tract No. 14 contained acres of very gently rolling pasture land, having a loose, sandy-loam soil. The outfit used was a tripod. Fig. 10.—Tripod stump piler (at left) and tripod stump puller (at right).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United Stat
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