INDEX 



287 



of lumber, 152 ; quantities used 

 in our country, 152; how logged 

 and lumbered, 153; white-pine 

 lumber, 154 ; hard pine, longleaf, 

 pitch pine, 154 ; yellow pine, 

 155; spruce, 155; redwood, red 

 fir, cypress, 156 ; hemlock, hard- 

 woods, 158 ; advantage to carpen- 

 ter and consumer of having stock 

 sizes, 159 ; carpenter's lumber, 160. 



Lumbering, 133, 166; tools, 137; 

 skidding, 138; scaling, 139; the 

 landing, 141 ; " rolling in," 143 ; 

 lumbering compared with farmer's 

 use of woods, 61 ; lumbering not 

 forestry, 41 ; lumbering the big 

 tree, 157 ; lumbering cypress, 159 ; 

 cooperative lumbering, 162. 



Lumberman, his method compared 

 with that of farmer, 61. 



Maple, how to distinguish the trees, 

 254 ; the wood and its uses, dif- 

 ferent kinds and where they 

 occur, 276. 



Measuring timber, 164 ; measuring 

 diameter and height, 171, 172; 

 measuring logs (scaling timber), 

 172. 



Methods of reproduction, coppice 

 or by sprouts, 45 ; by selection or 

 picking over, 58 ; by starting the 

 young growth under seed trees, 

 64 ; by natural seeding from the 

 side, 71 ; by artificial seeding and 

 planting, 76 ; methods compared, 

 95 ; table of comparison, 96. 



Mining timber, 147. 



Mistletoe, 133. 



Moisture, its effect on woods, 24 ; 

 transition from moist to dry dis- 

 tricts, 24 ; lack of moisture leads 

 to simple and stunted forests, 27 ; 

 flooding may kill timber, 27 ; 

 some trees are used to water, 28 ; 

 swamp woods, 28 ; moist air fa- 

 vors tree growth, 30. 



Moth and caterpillar, see Insects, 115. 



Mountains, the forests of high moun- 

 tains become simpler upwards, 

 38 ; conifers prevail at high alti- 

 tude, 38 ; extreme height stunts 

 and finally prevents tree growth, 

 40. 



Mulberry, 276. 



Naval stores, industry of, see Resin 

 and turpentine, 174. 



Non-porous woods, 222. 



Nursery work, gathering seed, 79 ; 

 care of seeds, 80 ; seed beds, 82 ; 

 sowing in seed bed, 82 ; quality of 

 seeds, 84 ; yield of plants, 85 ; 

 seedlings, 85; protection of, by 

 screens, etc., 87 ; planting, 87 ; 

 planting tools, 89 ; on prairies, 

 89 ; shipment of plants, 89 ; spring 

 and fall planting, 90. 



Oak, how to distinguish oaks, 248 ; 

 the wood and its many uses, 

 the different kinds and their dis- 

 tribution, 277. 



Osage orange, 279. 



