USE OF THE FOREST 



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Pine, spruce, etc., are mostly cut liy large crews of 

 regular lumbermen, and are sawed in large mills, but the 

 hardwood lumber comes mostly froui the farm and is cut 



Fi<;. 58. End of Log, sliowiiii;- Rift and Bastard Cuts 



Cuts a iiiid h inaki' all rift or quarter-sawed material ; but c and d are 

 nearly all taugeut or bastard cut 



in small country mills. Of the several kinds of coniferous 

 lumber a few are of such great importance that we should 

 know a little more al)out them. 



