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INDEX. 



r.-irquetry, 134 



Pasture, 516 



Piivements, woo'l for street, 118 



Pea-sticks, 165 



Peat, digging, 720 



,, litter, 749 

 Piano-fortes, wood for, 137 

 Pigs in forests, 564 

 Pitch pine, 116, 633 

 Pit-props, 93, 121, 168, 269, 643 

 Planing machines, 691 

 Planks, 110 

 Pliabilit}- of wood, 42 

 Poles, 200, 271 

 Pony saws, 687 



Private contract, sale by, 463, 467 

 Ptilinus sp., 87 

 Pyngado wood, 117 

 Pyroligneous acid, 168 



Q. 



(Quarrying stone, kc. 



R. 



Rafting timber, 408, 411 

 Railway-carriages, wood used for, 141 

 sleepers, 91, 92, 118, 330, 

 660, 669, 673 

 Railways, iniluence on the timber 



trade, 427 

 Red-rot, 71 



Reserve material in wood, 28 

 Resin-galls, 71 



,, in wood, 28, 43, 101 



,, tapping, 632 

 Resistance to strains, 47 

 Rhytidome, 41 

 Roads, 309 

 Root- rot, 73 

 Rosin, 28, 35, 83, 770 

 Royalty on wood, 451 

 Rudders, 149 



Sabots, 155 



Sales of wood, 441, 447 



Sale-lots, 292, 475 



Salep, 656 



Sand, pits for, 576 



Sapwood, 15 



Saws, 199, 288 



,, resistance of wood to, 37 

 Saw-dust, 164 



,, mills, 85, 199, 254, 288, 446, 676 



,, sets, 208 

 Scantlings, 110 



Sealed tenders for wood, 461, 466 

 Season for felling, 219 

 Seasoning wood, 50 

 Seeds of conifers, 751 



,, ,, other forest trees, 546 

 Seed-kilns, 752 

 Shingles for roofs, 148 

 Ship-building, 125, 269 

 Shoemakers' pegs, 153 

 Shrinkage of wood, 53 

 Sided timber, 107 

 Silver grain, 61, 134 

 Slack barrels, 146 

 Sledges, 140, 280 

 Sledge-roads, 314, 322 

 Slides, timber, 324 

 Sliding logs, 285, 288, 324 

 Softwood, 16, 34, 168 

 Sorting wood, 267 

 Sounding boards, 43 

 Soundness of wood, 102, 114 

 Spars, 131 



Specific gravity, 23, 80, 98 

 Split wood, 147 

 Spokes for wheels, 140, 167 

 Spring-wood, 9 

 Stacking wood, 267 

 Stacks of wood, 295, 439 

 Stakes, 165 

 Star shake, 61 

 Staves for casks, 142 

 Steaming wood, 46, 59 

 Stone quarries, 576 

 Storing seed, 557 

 Straightness of stem, 20 



