Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 145
uties is the reforesting, as it iscalled, of his bare soil. They set out ash, cherry,Vol. XXXVI.-87. most heat, as it is the product of a scientificallyconducted wood yard. With the April days, the young foresters packtheir instruments, tools, and clothes, mount their 690 THE BOY TIMBER CRUISERS OF… … THE HOME OF A FOREST RANGER. tan-bark trees and for a month or so they work inpeeling off the bark, figuring on how much bark atree will yield, packing the bark for shipment, alsoin analyzing such wood as chestnut, which con-tains a valuable sap used for chemical prepara-tions. In a year the boys…
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