Notes 



143 



TODAY. 



Sure this world is full of trouble — 



I ain't said it ain't 

 Lord! I've had enough, and double, 



Reason fer complaint. 

 Rain an' storm have come to fret me, 



Skies were often gray; 

 Thorns an' brambles have beset me 



On the road — but, say, 

 Ain't it fine today! 



What's the use of always weepin'; 



Makin' trouble last? 

 What's the use of always keepin' 



Thinkin' of the past? 

 Each must have his tribulation. 



Water with his wine, 

 Life it ain't no celebration. 



Trouble? I've had mine — 

 But today is fine. 



It's today thet I am livin' 



Not a month ago, 

 Havin', losin', takin', givin', 



As time wills it so. 

 Yesterday a cloud of sorrow 



Fell across the way: 

 It may rain again tomorrow, 



It may rain — but, say. 

 Ain't it fine today! 



HARDY NORTHERN 



FOREST TREES 

 and shrubs at forest 

 prices. 



Native and foreign tree seeds. 



Edye-de- Hurst & Son, 



Dennyhurst, via Dryden, Ont. 



nniPPERfl TO H. M. OOVKRNMENT, ETCX 



Cforrespondanee J^an^aiM. 



SAWDUST BRIQUETTES. 



A new industry may be successfully 

 combined with the planing mills — that of 

 making of the sawdust briquettes to be 

 used for firing under the boilers, thus con- 

 siderably decreasing the cost of the fuel 

 to the mill owner. According to a note in 

 a recent issue of the Scientific American, 

 this is being very advantageously done in 

 Germany. The sawdust is automatically 

 gathered and conveyed to a place near the 

 presses. From here it is carried over a 

 heated belt-conveyer to a drying-room. This 

 is a cylindrical revolving drum about two 

 feet in diameter and twenty feet long. In 

 this drum the sawdust is partially dried, 

 the pitch contained in the wood is softened, 

 acting hereafter as a binder. From here 

 the sawdust is conveyed over an incline to 

 the after-dryer of the same shape as the 

 first dryer, which forms a part of the press. 

 Here it is svibmitted to a higher tempera- 

 ture to drive off all the moisture, and kept 

 running forward toward the end of the 

 after-dryer by rotating paddles. At the end 

 of this after-dryer, the sawdust falls through 

 an opening into the trough of the press. 



At the end of each pressing operation, 

 which takes place about twenty-four times 

 a minute, a briquette is made about 5^ 

 inches by 2% inches by 1% inch, weighing 

 between one half and three quarters of a 

 pound. From the press the briquettes are 

 carried by another belt-conveyor to a cool- 

 ing room, and are then ready for use. — 

 Paper Inc. 



TIMBER CRUISES ) 



FORESTRY SURVEYS/ Fo^^^^yDept. 



Montreal Engineering Company, Limited 



Consulting & Operating Engineers 



*2ii McGILL STREET, MONTREAL 

 R. O. Sweezay, General Manager 



S:" ^ STUMP PULLER 



^sWSmith Grubber Co 



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