Excerpt from Pulpwood or Sawlogs?: From Small Hardwood Trees The standard cord of rough (unpeeled) wood is used as the common denominator because it is a unit of volume nearly everyone is acquainted With. Ideally it is composed of 4 - foot sticks stacked in a pile 4 feet high and 8 feet long containing 128 cubic feet of space. The solid content in a cord varies from 52 cubic feet to 98 cubic feet of solid material because of differences in bark thick ness, straightness, and Size of sticks Many authorities though (1, 2, 5) accept 90 cubic feet as a reasonable solid content of a cord composed of straight sticks which might be used either for saw logs or pulpwood. The 90 - cubic-foot cord is used here. 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.