Victor Sylvan Jensen
Published: 2017-10-28
Total Pages: 48
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Excerpt from Cost of Producing Pulpwood on Farm Woodlands of the Upper Connecticut River Valley The role Of the Association as banker undoubtedly sold the Cooperative to a considerable number of members. _to have a broker acting in the interests of the producer appeared to be good economy, particularly as the margin formerly paid the commission man must largely carry the Association overhead. However, in order to fully justify and insure its continued existence, the Association must provide its members with worthwhile services not formerly available. This can be best attained by an educational program having as the ultimate goal a land management program involving the maximum sustained production of valuable timber crops on the holdings of all members. Surveys, inventories, and experimental work, together with market and other special studies, provide the basis for such a sound program of education. The educational program is carried on by the State Extension Service and the United States Forest Service, and includes individual advice to landowners in the form of woodland management plans meetings, discussions, and practical demonstrations. The work has the support of the Forest Products Association, Inc and is carried out in accordance with a Cooperative agreement between the New Hampshire State Exten sion Service and the Association. Although primarily concerned with the farmer, this program should develop in the consumer as well as the producer, a better understanding of problems of mutual interest. Primarily to determine the practicability of making partial cuttings in second growth stands, of Spruce and fir, a study of costs of producing pulpwood was undertaken by the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station in connection with Operations Of the Forest Products Association. This study, indicating the possibility of developing silviculturally desirable methods of cutting, provides the type of information essential for. The educational program sponsored by the Forest Products Association. As a basis for recommending any changes in customary local practice, the cost of producing pulpwood study necessarily involved a detailed analysis of all phases of representative Operations from the time the trees were out until delivery of pulpwood at the mill. Although a means to an end from the land management standpoint, the time and cost phases of this study have further utility in providing the pulpwood Operators and landowners with data applicable to going Operations. Available in this report, these data indi cate effect of size and Species on costs of production, provide a basis for allocating costs to different phases of a job, and bring out the efficiency of different operating methods and crew organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.