. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. HISTORY OF FARM. and timing the disappearance first of flame, and then of red glow. 3. The btu-ning quality of the same kind of wood in different con- ditions, green and dead, sapwood and heartwood; dead wood wet and dry, sound and punk; pieces from knot and from straight grained por- tions, etc., may be tested paragraph I. 4. Ancient methods of starting a as m Fig. 47. Rubbing sticks £or fire making: a, drill-socket, to which pressure is applied with the left hand (
. The natural history of the farm; a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature. Natural history. HISTORY OF FARM. and timing the disappearance first of flame, and then of red glow. 3. The btu-ning quality of the same kind of wood in different con- ditions, green and dead, sapwood and heartwood; dead wood wet and dry, sound and punk; pieces from knot and from straight grained por- tions, etc., may be tested paragraph I. 4. Ancient methods of starting a as m Fig. 47. Rubbing sticks £or fire making: a, drill-socket, to which pressure is applied with the left hand (a pine it° wiii"do %r 1;his); 6,\he fire may be demonstrated in the ititer- stkk ^ab°ou?^ fifteen" irch°es vals whilc waiting for the pieces used long; the top should work . j j. i_ j. smoothly in the drill socket; in I, 2, and 3 tO DUm OUt. With J inelastic bow for rotating ,- , â . -^j^â¢.- «*,â drill. It is moved horizont- the apparatus shown m ng. 47 any- ally back and forth with the ' s cord, d, is a leather thong with enough right hand; its cord, d, is a ouc Can Start a fire by friction of one siack^to tightly^encirde the piecc of wood upon another and care- d^ baSi fir. or of TouoS- fiilly nursing the first resiilting spark. wood. ^°°dbsIr^r^\ow fhe FHnt and steel and tinder may also notches are cut with sides ^ i. ' A flaring downward, a little pit be tneu. to receive the point of the fire drill is at the apex of each one; 7 is a used-out notch: 2 is yet in use; j is a new unused notch: the rotating of the drill with pressure from above rubs off a brownish wood powder which falls beneath the notch and smokes, and then. with gentle fanning, ignites. A dry piece of punk should be placed beneath the notch to catch it, and some fine tinder (such as may be readily made by scraping fine, dry cedar wood) should - . - .,, * i* â¢. j be added to catch the first hickory Will exude a very Imuted quantity of delicious * 'hickory honey. (b) By bur
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