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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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ur lumbermen and consequent rise in theprice of hardwood lands will have a direct influence on the forest policy of theState. Hitherto the State has been purchasing forest lands at a low price, becausethe lumbermen, having removed the small proportion of conifers — spruce, pine andhemlock — were willing to sell at a low figure. The remaining hardwoods could notbe marketed, and the taxes were burdensome. But now that the hardwoods, aswell as the others, will probably be cut, there arises an imperative necessity formore prompt and liberal action on the part of the State Legislature if our forestsare to be preserved. Hitherto lumbering has meant a culling or thinning process,the removal of the evergreens only; it soon may mean denudation. L/encrfl) of lyOcrs. The lumbermen of Southern and Western New York cut their logs mostlyinto lengths of sixteen feet to supply the market demand for sixteen-foot boards.They cut some twelve-foot logs in order to save timber, and there was generally
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X OO ►J o QO s <: FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 265 enough of these short logs to supply the call for boards of that length. On somejobs fourteens were cut to save timber; but boards of this length were somewhatunsalable. In the Adirondack forests all logs, with scarcely an exception, are cut thirteenfeet long. The reason for adopting this odd length is not known now. For nearlya hundred years the lumbermen of Northern New York have cut thirteen-foot logssawed thirteen-foot boards, and sold thirteen-foot lumber in the Albany and NewYork markets, although logs everywhere else in the United States are cut intolengths of sixteen feet or some other even number. Fifty years ago the ten-inchboards, thirteen feet long, from the Glens Falls mills, were known in these marketsas tally-boards, and were sold by count instead of measure. It may be that,originally, the liberal-minded lumbermen of that region considered their logs astwelve feet long with an extra foot added for good measure

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