184 PRACTICAL FORESTRY 
brush is a product well worth considering. Man has 
never yet devised a more useful fertilizer. 
When there is a scarcity of wood for paper manu- 
facture, this brushwood will be ground into pulp. 
It is fairly free from hard knots, and is certainly not 
essentially different from older wood. 
For pulp or cellulose there are endless uses. In 
addition to paper, pails, and other useful objects, the 
compo-board will come more and more into use. On 
these compo-boards we can paste choice veneers, 
thus retaining the beauty of the natural product, be- 
ing in fact in many respects an improvement. The 
twentieth century has its possibilities in this as well 
as in other lines. 
Between the brush and common merchantable 
fuel-wood there is a grade of wood from one to two 
inches in diameter which is ordinarily wasted, al- 
though the best kind of fuel-wood. It can be easily 
converted into a fine grade of charcoal. This is the 
kind of wood ordinarily used for charcoal in Europe. 
It is a great. labor-saving fuel in that it needs no 
splitting, dries quickly, is easy to handle and easy to 
cut. There is no better fuel in the world than hard- 
wood sticks ranging from one to two inches in diam- 
eter. 
We have exalted notions in reference to wood, 
and have always used too good wood for fuel pur- 
