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A thousand feet of oak makes a good load for a two-horse 

 wagon on the ordinary country road. It weighs 3,500 pounds, 

 more or less, depending upon the slate of dryness and the kind 

 of oak. There are many kinds of oak and all do not weigh 

 alike; but take 3,5 00 pounds as a good average for the weight 

 of seasoned oak lumber. 



The government must now have 28.000,000 feet of oak for 

 cannon wheels alone. The naming of the amount does not con- 

 vey the full meaning of the transaction. A wagon and two 

 horses loaded with lumber occupy at least twenty-five feet of 

 the road. Load such a wagon with oak for cannon wheels and 

 start it down the road; load another and send it along after the 

 first, as near as they can travel together; and similarly start a 

 third and a fourth, and keep it up until the whole 28,000.000 

 feet has been loaded on wagons and started down the pike. 



About hov^ long a train of wagons would be needed to haul 

 the whole stock? The problem is not difficult so far as the 

 arithmetic of it is concerned, but the answer is astonishing. The 

 teams would make a continuous string, as close as they could 

 travel one behind another, for 1 1 3 miles. 



It may be taken for granted that the kaiser would open his 

 eyes when he saw that string of 28,000 wagons coming down the 

 pike and was told that they were loaded with dimension oak to 

 be used in the manufacture of cannon wheels, and that there was 

 plenty more where that came from and plenty of men and mules 

 and mills to get it out of the woods and on the way across the 

 sea where it would do the most good in making the world safe 

 ior democracy. 



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