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INDEX 



Quercitron, 65, 78, 79 

 , dye wood, 419 

 Qaercus acuminaia, 146 



alba, 146 



agilops, 85 



cerrus for charcoal, 244, 245 



den si flora, 75 



macrocarpa, 146 



minor, 146 



plaianoides, 146 



Prinus, 71 

 - sitber, 433 



vein Una, 78 



, dyes, 416 



Quermos for tanning, 65 

 Quintal, equivalents, 16 



R 



Rabate on French naval stores industry, 188 

 Rail, (split), equivalent. 15 

 Railroad Administration, U. S., tie specifica- 

 tions, 274 



tie specifications, 271, 272 

 Railway mileage in United States, 263 

 Rambong rubber, 406 



Rate of consumption of lumber, 5 



Raw material, excelsior, 427 



Raymond, W. C., on cross ties, 298 



Record of sap seasons, 383 



, S. J., on cork oak in the United States, 



443 



, , fuel value of wood, 350 



, , sources of vegetable tannins, 



reference, 88 



Recovery of spent liquors, 50 

 Red spruce see eastern spruce 

 Redwood, amount for boxes, 251 



cross ties, amount, 267 



fuel value, 342 

 , lumber cut, 8 

 , value, 10 



poles, amount, 303 

 , durability, 320 



posts, 326 



shakes, 370 



shingles, durability, 369 

 , standing timber, 4 



ties, durability, 293 



Reed, I.. J., on storage of ship cargoes, 261 



Refrigeration, cork for, 441 



Refining crude alcohol, 212 



Rehm, N. F., on ties and tie plates, 298 



Requirements of a good tie, 267 

 desirable pulp woods, 22 



for establishment of a pulp mill, 30 

 Retort house for distillation, hardwood, 207 

 Retorts, distillation, 208 



, iron, used in hardwood distillation, 200 

 , oven, used in hardwood distillation, 201 



used in cooking sulphite pulp, 41, 42 

 Resin flow in tapping for naval stores, 167 

 Resinous woods, fuel value, 343 

 Rhizophora mangle, Linn., 82 



Rhode Island, box lumber consumption, 252 



, wood fuel used, 339 

 Rhus coriaria, 85 



glabra, 79 



typhina, 79 



Richards, A. M., photograph by, 19, 25 



Rifle tie, 264 



Rocky Mountains, fuel in, 340 



Rolls, drying, paper, 56 



Rosewood sawed veneers, 102 



used for veneers, 90 



Rosin and turpentine, production of, 168, 169 



barrels, 181 

 , grades of, 180 



market prices at Savannah, 185 



sizing, 53 

 , uses of, 232 



, utilization of, 184 



Rotary veneer machine, illustration of, 91 



Rubber, African, 406 



, collecting, illustration of. 409 



Company, U. S., illustration by, 407, 409 

 , general, 401 



, history, 402 



, methods of manufacture, 411 



, production, 404 



, Para, in plantations, 408 



plantation, illustration of, 402 



plantations, 407 

 , acreage, 408 



, investments in, 408, 409 

 , spacing trees, 409 



production, 401, 410 

 , sources of supply, 404 

 , uses, 412 



, values, 401, 402, 412 



vulcanizing, 403 



Rule, Doyle, used in measuring stave and 



heading logs, 137 

 Rules, grading, shingle, 360 

 Russia, 2 



