Cost And Methods Of Clearing Land In Western Washington Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Cost and Methods of Clearing Land in Western Washington Much of the agricultural-land in the United States was at one time occupied by forests. Although a large area of this land has been cleared of brush and stumps, little has been published concerning the methods and cost of preparing stump land for the plow. In several sections of the country this question is yet an important one, but it is of the utmost importance in western Washington, where the land is for the most part covered with evergreen timber. Lum bering has been for years the leading industry of this section, result ing in large areas being stripped of merchantable timber and leaving what is locally called logged-off land, known in other States as out over land. The difference between the logged-off lands of western Washington and the cut-over lands of other States is chiefly in the size of the stumps. Cut-over lands are generally quite easily cleared, while to bring logged-off land under cultivation with primitive methods has been very laborious and expensive. This land as left by the logger is thickly studded with stumps, snags, and trees unfit for lumber, among which logs, tree tops, and under brush are strewn (fig. 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.

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Excerpt from Cost and Methods of Clearing Land in the Lake States At the present time very little logged-ofi' land that would make de sirable farm land can be bought for less than $15 to $25 per acre. As the cost of clearing varies from $20 to $90 per acre, the cost of farm land cleared of stumps Will run from $35 to 8115 per acre, the average being about 865. When the cost of other necessary improvements is added to this, it makes the ultimate cost of an improved farm higher than the price of equally as good a farm in many Of the older, Well settled agricultural sections of the United States. The high price of the logged-off land and the high cost of clearing seriously retard its development. 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.

Excerpt from Handbook of Clearing and Grubbing Methods and Cost More than half the tillable area of the United States was originally forest. East of the Mississippi there was comparatively little arable land not covered with trees 200 years ago. Of the acres of farm land now under cultivation, it is a conservative estimate that 50 per cent had to be cleared and stumped before it could be cropped. Assuming, then, that acres of farm land in America have been cleared and grubbed at an average cost of only $10 an acre, there has been expended for this work. The staggering size of this sum would naturally lead a person to expect to find many books on the subject of clearing and grubbing, but the present book is the first and only one of its kind. By state and federal departments of government there have been published a number of valuable bulletins on the subject, but in none of these is there to be found even a general review of all the different methods of clearing trees and removing stumps. Beside collecting into this book all the valuable information contained in bulletins, I have also compiled all that I could find in periodical literature. In addition I have abstracted from catalogs of manufacturers a considerable amount of excellent material. I have published several original articles in Engineer ing and Contracting, the contents of which will be found; herein. As an engineering contractor I have had charge of clearing and grubbing operations under some of the most difficult conditions. I have built stump pullers capable of exerting a strain of lbs. I have blasted out fir stumps 12 ft. In diameter above the ground level, and have done clearing and stumping under such severe conditions that the cost was $400 an acre after the standing timber had been cut and logged ofl'. These facts are mentioned to give the reader at least some measure of my competence to write on the subject and to compile with judgment what others have written. 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.

Excerpt from Clearing Bush Lands in B. C, Vol. 85 Page Bracken fern, method of destruction Branding-up 13, 18 Burning-pits Blowing stumps with large charges Blowing stumps with small charges Cedar, best time to cut Cedar, uses of Chopping and piling, methods of Cordwood Clearing land for poultry-keeping or berry-growing Char-pitting Clearing, cost of 33, 39 Drains Donkey-engines Fir, best time to cut Fencing Ground fires Lawful fence Logs, big, how to handle Log-burning Seeding cleared land Sprouts, killing Stamping Stumping - powder, use of 34, Stumps, second-growth Stamping-machines Stumping-machines, man-power Stumps, treatment with chemicals Trees, advantage of leaving some Trees, time to burn. 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.