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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



refuse for fuel, and in other waj^s, very man}^ thousands 

 of tons of wood a year are thrown into great burners as 

 the cheapest method of getting it out of the way. 



When the lumber has been sawed it may be piled 

 and seasoned in the yard or kiln dried before it is 

 sent to market or sold at the mill. Some sawmills on 



Fig. 36. — A band saw. Virginia. 



Puget Sound are built on piles over the water, so that 

 the lumber is loaded into vessels directly from the saws. 

 Others load their product on the cars and distribute it 

 by rail. Still others on the Pacihc slope float their 

 timber away in a narrow wooden trough called a flume, 

 through which flows a rapid stream of water. (See 



