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Excerpt from Combined Monthly Report: Branch of Research; October, 1926
Field work on the fire weather study at the Harvard Forest was dis continued at the end of the month. On account of the comparatively wet fall, Stickel had an Opportunity to try out the Zeleny electric moisture meter. It was hoped that this instrument would enable us to do away with the duff hygrometer, but it is not believed that the instrument With its present construction is suitable for obtaining moisture percentages of duff or wood when the moisture falls below 10 per cent. Further experi ments will be made with this instrument to determine whether temperature has any effect on its accuracy.
In addition to the slash disposal work at Cherry Mountain, in the White Mountains, Spaulding put in considerable time on white pine slash disposal at Alfred, Maine, and in mixed slash at Sugar Island, Maine, and at Ferdinand, Bolton, and Stowe, Vermont.of work. The compilation of the estimate of the standing timber Shows M board feet on the acres, or a little less than 10 M board feet to'the acre. Of this sugar maple makes up 73 per cent, yellow birch 13 per cent, northern white cedar 8 per cent, and white and black spruce, black ash, balsam, red maple, hemlock, and white pine the balance.
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