308 Forestry Quarterly. 



20-Pound Treatment. 

 3 inch blocks, $1.62 per sq. yard 



3^ inch blocks, $1.87 per sq. yard 



Block pavements costs about 12 cents more than brick. It is 

 claimed they are smooth, wear smooth, never chip, do not store 

 heat, never slippery, reduce noise of traffic, easy on hoofs and tires, 

 no cost of maintenance. 



Southern Industrial and Lumber Review, February, 19 12. 



Formerly willow was used almost exclu- 



Wooden Shoe sively for manufacturing wooden shoes but 



in the scarcity of this wood brought Poplar 



Europe. into use. It requires about i cubic meter 



for 100 pairs of shoes of ordinary sizes. A 



cubic meter equals 35.32 cubic feet and costs about $6.00. The 



wholesale price of the shoes is 12 cents. One workman can make 



12 to 15 pairs per day. Relatively few wooden shoes are made 



by machinery; it requires hand work to give them the satisfactory 



finish. 



Woodcraft, February, 1912. 



The custom of quarter sawing oak is of 



Quarter-Sazved only recent origin. In 1871 an Englishman 



Oak named Thayer, in designing the city hall of 



History. Providence, R. I. suggested that oak sawed 



on the quarter be used for the interior finish. 



He had heard of a similar finish recently used in England, The 



contractors secured the material from Jacob L. Rumbarger. 



Monroe County, Indiana. The best white oak logs were used and 



great pains exercised in sawing the lumber accurately. It was 



years afterwards that quarter-sawed oak was used in furniture 



manufacture. 



Hardwood Record, January, 191 2. 



