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Excerpt from Agricultural Economics Research, Vol. 4: A Journal of Economic and Statistical Research in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Cooperating Agencies; October 1952 A Test of Survey Methods for Estimating Stumpage Prices By A. S. Todd, Jr. And John J. Zirkle, Jr. The Forest Service needed information as to prices of standing timber and logs for use in a study of distribution costs and margins in the pine lumber industry of the Southeast. The study was conducted under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (rma, Title II). As North Carolina, the chosen site for the study, has saw mills and hundreds of thousands of wooded properties, some method of sampling had to be devised. Whom to sample, what kind and how large a sample to take, and how to assure a representative sample were some of the questions that arose. For this reason, and because it seemed an excellent opportunity for a test of price survey techniques, the study that is reported in the following paper was designed to permit comparisons of several more or less obvious methods of obtaining price data. 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.