. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. CONSERVATIVE LUMBERING. 53 PI. X\'II.) These flumes are sometimes over 40 miles in leno'th, and cost almost as much to ])uild as a rail- road. Man3^ sawmills have connected with them plan- ing mills or woodworking- factories of other kinds, so that the rouo-h lumber from their saws is changed into the form of a finished product before it reaches the market. WASTE IX LUMBERING. This is very briefly the way in which a tree gets into the market at the end of its life. At every step there is some waste. Although it mav be sound throughout, the lum
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. CONSERVATIVE LUMBERING. 53 PI. X\'II.) These flumes are sometimes over 40 miles in leno'th, and cost almost as much to ])uild as a rail- road. Man3^ sawmills have connected with them plan- ing mills or woodworking- factories of other kinds, so that the rouo-h lumber from their saws is changed into the form of a finished product before it reaches the market. WASTE IX LUMBERING. This is very briefly the way in which a tree gets into the market at the end of its life. At every step there is some waste. Although it mav be sound throughout, the lumbermen in the woods can take but a portion of it, often leaving a part of the trunk and all of the top to rot on the ground. When each log comes to the saw there is a further loss of nearly all the slabs and edgings and all the saw^dust that is not used for fuel. On the average it is doubtful whether more than half of the cubic contents of a standing tree is Anally used. As prices rise and as conservative lum- bering comes to be generally practiced, the greater part of this enormous loss will be avoided, ])ut it can probably never cease Ed^in^S Fig. 37.—Diagram to show the sawing of a 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 United States. Division of Forestry. Washington : G. P. O.
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