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from a straight course in sawing off a stick, it is said to run. 

 The young farmer should make himself familiar with each of these 

 terms, as they will often be used in the succeeding paragraphs. 



NAMES OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF SAWS. 



603. Saws that are circular on the cutting-edge are denomi 

 nated sometimes buzz saws, or crosscut-circular, or slitting-circular, 

 according to the form of the teeth. Hand-saws are denominated 

 hand-crosscut, or hand-slitting, or panel saws, according to the 

 form of their teeth. Saws that have their backs inserted in a 

 bar of brass or iron are called lack, or tenon saws. A compass 

 saw has a narrow, tapering blade, with a handle on one end for 

 sawing round holes in anything. Saws that are used by two 

 men when sawing logs are called crosscut, or crosscut log saws. 

 (Any saw that is filed to cut across the grain of wood is called a 

 crosscut, and when filed square across the teeth, slitting, or rip 

 saws.) Saws that are used for sawing logs into short cuts for 

 staves, or shingles, or firewood, when attached to a pitman are 

 called crosscut-butting saws, or drag saws. Felly, or felloe saws 

 are put in a frame and filed to cut both crossways and length- 

 ways of the grain of wood. Pit saws are long, two-men saws, 

 for slitting long timber, while one man stands on * the timber, 

 and the other beneath the stick that they are sawing. Billet, 

 or wood-sawyer's saws, are put in a frame for sawing fire-wood. 

 Bow, or billet-web saws, are put in a small frame and strained, 

 and used for sawing circular work. Cast-steel webs are used for 

 sawing iron and brass. Mulay, or "mooly" saws, are used in 

 sawmills where the pitman is attached to one end of the saw, 

 and the saw is not hung in a gate. There are many other 

 kinds of saws which we will not notice here. 



SELECTING SAWS, AND THE EXTERNAL SIGNS OF GOOD SAWS 

 AND POOR ONES, AND NUMBER OF TEETH IN SAWS. 



604. In selecting a saw of any kind, it is always the wisest 

 policy to get a good one, even if it be a little more costly. A 

 poor saw is always a source of vexation and loss to any one who 



