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A I'RIMKR OF FORFSTRY. 



refuse for fuel, and in other ways, very many thousands 

 of tons of wood a year are thrown into ^reat burners as 

 the cheapest method of ovtting- it out of the way. 



When the lumber has been s^wed it may be piled 

 and seasoned in the yard or kiln dried before it is 

 sent to market or sold at the mill. Some sawmills on 



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Sound are 'milt on piles over the water, so that 

 the lumber is loaded into vessels directly from the saws. 

 ( )thers load their product on the cars and distribute it 

 by rail. Still others on the Pacific slope float their 

 timber away in a narrow wooden trough called a Hume, 

 through which Hows a rapid stream of water. (See 



