Literature and Art 



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Lesson 114 

 PREPARATION OF WOOD FOR USE 



Tell what you know about lumber woods and the work 

 done there. 



How are logs carried from the forest to the mills ? Into 

 what are the logs changed ? 



Tell about ways in which lumber is carried from the mills 

 to the lumber yards. 



Name as many as you can of the workers who helped get 

 the lumber for your desk or chair. " 



Tell about any part of this 

 work of which you know. 



In the picture on the next 

 page, find all the ways in which 

 wood is used. 



Make a picture showing one of 

 the ways in which lumber is carried 

 by water. 



SUGGESTED WORK 



Secure blocks of different kinds of 

 wood and try to drive nails into each. 

 What do you find out about their hard- 

 ness? 



Take strips or splints of different 

 woods of equal length and size. Support 

 a strip at each end and hang a weight in 

 the center. Test each strip in the same 

 way and tell which remain straight and 

 which bend or break. 



Collect specimens of different kinds 

 of wood. Smooth and polish one surface 

 of each specimen to show the grain. If 

 possible, get a picture of the kind of tree 

 from which each wood comes, a cross 

 section of a branch, a leaf, and a speci- 

 men of the bark. The work done in the woods 



