. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CATHARINES SAW WORKS! ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO. MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF ALL SAWS FULLY WARRANTED. Sole Manufacturers for the Dominion of Canada of the SIMONDS" SAWS. m-All Our SAWS are now made under tlie "SIMONDS" PATENT PROCESS. ECONOMY OF WOOD IN ENGLAND. A writer in Woods and Forests, of Westmins- ter, England, says that everything in the shape of wood is turned to account in the southern counties of England, even the roots beine* utili
. Canadian forest industries 1885. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CATHARINES SAW WORKS! ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO. MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF ALL SAWS FULLY WARRANTED. Sole Manufacturers for the Dominion of Canada of the SIMONDS" SAWS. m-All Our SAWS are now made under tlie "SIMONDS" PATENT PROCESS. ECONOMY OF WOOD IN ENGLAND. A writer in Woods and Forests, of Westmins- ter, England, says that everything in the shape of wood is turned to account in the southern counties of England, even the roots beine* utilized for fuel. Cordwood is made of tree branches, a cord being three feet high, three feet wide and 14 feet long. It sells at to $ a cord. Large quantities of cordwood are made into charcoal for drying hops. Roots of trees are converted into charcoal. The writer of this article quaintly remarks that, "Large wood is not so profitable for charcoal as small, for the reason that the large is the more valuable in the first place, and it does not cost so much to cleanse as the small wood "—a proposition that would make an American charcoal man laugh. Nine or 10 shillings a cord are paid for grabbing roots, that are either sold for fuel or burned for charcoal. House fagots are made of branches too small for cordwood, and also of the crooked and waste wood of the coppices not fit to be cut into hop poles, pea bough hoops, flour sticks, etc. They are put up in bundles fire feet long and five feet round, and bound in the middle like a bundle of wheat. The small •pray of undergrowth, of all kinds of wood, is cut and made into bundles, and sold for about 31 cents a hundred. They are used for brick burning. Fagots sell at $ to $ in the woods per 100, whatever that may be; the writer does not say whether it is 100 bundles or 100 sticks. They are used for fuel, especially for lighting fires and heating bakers' ovens. It is not everywhere in England that it is pr
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