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By-Products of the Forest 



the saplings and young sprouts. Sticks from 

 four to six inches thick are best, but some of 

 those used are even smaller. 



READY FOR BURNING 



When the wood is stacked and ready to be 

 burned, the grass sods are taken up from the 

 place where the pit is to be made. This is in the 

 shape of a circle twenty or thirty feet across, and 

 there the earth is packed down tight. The burn- 

 ers place a layer of brushwood over the earth, 

 and in the center drive a long stake. The wood, 



