. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 Octoljer, 1887 SAWDUST. Many a lumberman can mend his ways by simply making better roadways before wet weather sets in. So much green lumber is used and houses are built so fast in Birmingham, Ala., that when the builder asks the owner to settle up for a house, the owner tells him to wait and let the house settle down. It is announced that a German chemist has succeeded in making a first-class article of brandy out of sawdust, whereupcn an exchange is moved to
. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 Octoljer, 1887 SAWDUST. Many a lumberman can mend his ways by simply making better roadways before wet weather sets in. So much green lumber is used and houses are built so fast in Birmingham, Ala., that when the builder asks the owner to settle up for a house, the owner tells him to wait and let the house settle down. It is announced that a German chemist has succeeded in making a first-class article of brandy out of sawdust, whereupcn an exchange is moved to enquire : " What chance will the prohibition movement now have when a man can take a hand saw and go out and get drunk on a fence rail ?" May be it will relieve the poor, over-worked wives from the arduous labor of sawing their own stovewood.âSouthern Lumberman. It will on the other hand prove another incentive to increase the denudation of our forests. Shoot the chemist by all means and preserve our forests at all hazards. Old Sawyer has a son whose conduct is not the best in the world, and he was telling to a crowd many of the boy's bad habits and ended by saying that he was drunk all the time and was the worst boy in the neighborhood. An old farmer whose sympathy was aroused, safd : "That is so, Mr. Sawyer, your son is a bad one, awful ; Old Sawyer looked aston- ished and then thundered out : " He is just as good as your boys, confound your old meddle- some ; To try to run a saw mill or a lumber busi- ness without a lumber paper is like presenting the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Neither is satisfactory. People did run saw mills before there was any lumber papers pub- lished, and they also beat their hominy in a ".ortar before mills were built, but, as an Kast Tcnnesse woman once remarked to us, "It is a mighty poor way of ; It will not do in this day and time. A lumber paper is now as indispensable to
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