Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 144
les. From this comes a thirdof the fuel burned by the city of Asheville. Herethe boys study the trees best suited for fire-wood,the way to handle the ax in felling them, how tosaw and pile cord-wood, also to calculate howmuch fuel wood is contained in an acre of stand-ing timber —an easy task when… … STUDENTS LEARNING HOW TO TELL DIFFERENT KINDSOF TREES FROM THEIR TWIGS AND FLOWERS. into a tree plantation. When this crop is readyto cut, the value of the wood will be so much asto well repay the time, labor, and expense of re-foresting. The fire-wood industry is so profita-ble because those who…
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