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Scientific American, Vol. 88, No. 2 (1903) (1903)

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d, blue and yellow, we must obtain radically trated as short pieces not much longer than the width The tree began to grow 550 A. D., and was 18 feet in different color effects than any we have ever seen, and of the rib on the tie. However, if desired, they may diameter when Columbus reached our… … is a product remarkable for toughness, durability, serts that a female gypsy moth (Ocneria dispar) RAILWAY TIE AND FASTENING. will, by an odor so subtile as to be imper- tensile strength and pliancy. It is used for belt- ceptible to human olfactories, “attract males from ing, rope, hydraulic…

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