. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 479. Portable sawmill. Fig. 480. Stationary sawmill. other countries. The poorer grades are found on the local country yards. Wa.^te in lumbering. Some thirty years ago only about 30 per cent of the available timber of a stand was placed on the j'ard. The best and most convenient was taken and the remainder left to grow, burn or decay as chance might determine. It did not pay in those days to be saving. With increased value, however, more care is now exercised to cut the crop closer. Some timber-land has been cut over for the third or
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 479. Portable sawmill. Fig. 480. Stationary sawmill. other countries. The poorer grades are found on the local country yards. Wa.^te in lumbering. Some thirty years ago only about 30 per cent of the available timber of a stand was placed on the j'ard. The best and most convenient was taken and the remainder left to grow, burn or decay as chance might determine. It did not pay in those days to be saving. With increased value, however, more care is now exercised to cut the crop closer. Some timber-land has been cut over for the third or fourth time, each time all that was worth har- vesting being taken. Virgin stands are now worked very in clean cutting where timber is valu- able. All logs down to four inches at the top are taken to the mill, where there are two sets of saws. As the logs come into the mill, the better ones are thrown to one saw and the poorer to the other. The better logs nearly all make lumljer,while the poorer ones are mostly cut into four- foot lengths from which is made wood alcohol, acetic acid, charcoal and the like. In hard-woods, the proportion is about one cord of wood to each thousand feet of lumber. Where timber is valuable for fuel, the tops and limbs are worked into cord- wood to supply local demand, and the B22. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed. New York, The Macmillan company
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