550 INDEX 



Blasting rock, drilling, 269. 



electric fuse, 274. 

 explosives, 271, 275. 

 loading holes for, 272. 

 primers and priming for, 273. 

 safety fuse and caps for, 273. 

 tamping, 274. 

 Blasting stumps, 276. 



Blodgett or New Hampshire log rule, 113, 520. 

 Bob, 158. 



Boisen, Anton T., on the commercial hickories, 23, 471. 

 Bole, factors governing the amount utilized, 96. 

 Bonds, timber, 39. 



character of, 39. 

 floating an issue of, 42. 

 sinking fund for, 41. 

 Boom, 360. 



bag or sack, 382. 



barge, 363. 



bracket, 361, 365. 



catch, 377. 



chain, 361, illustration, 361. 



fin, 362, illustration, 362. 



harbor, 389. 



limber, 360, 361. 



on large streams, 379. 



plug, 361. 



round, 389. 



sheep-shank, 360, 361. 



sheer, 360. 



storage, 364, 365. 



cribs for holding a, 364, illustration, 363. 

 towing, 367. 

 trap, 377. 

 Boom companies, 369, 381. 



Canada, 369, 381, 384. 

 liability of, 369. 

 Northeast, 425. 

 Boom sticks, 364. 



Booming logs in the Northwest, cost of, 434. 

 Bottom, logging, cypress region, 430. 

 Lake States, 426. 

 Northeast, 424. 

 Northwest, 432. 

 Southern pine, 428. 

 West Virginia, 435. 

 Box, flume and log sluice, 396. 



lumber and nails required to construct, 409, 412, 413. 

 turpentine, chipping, 445. 

 cornering, 445. 

 cutting, 444. 

 dipping, 447. 

 Bracket boom, 361, 365. 



Bracket or needle gate for a logging dam, 357. 



Bradfield, Wesley, on the amount of standing timber in woodlots, 475. 

 Brands, log, 370, 371. 



dehorning, 372. 

 legal status of, 372. 

 Brands, log, recording, 372. 



validity of, in Minnesota, 372. 



