Concerning Fire Risks on Timberlands. 



The risk from fire to timberland properties has in some ways 

 greatly diminished, due to government and state fire wardens and 

 patrols, and the general better education of the public as well as the 

 keen desire natural to the lumber companies for protection against 

 such a fearful plague. 



Upon the other hand, because of the railroads pushing back into 

 the wilderness, spreading sparks in territory never before traversed by 

 a locomotive ; because of the almost universal use now of a type of 

 cigarette which does not go out, but consumes itself to the last ash 

 after it has been thrown aside by the thoughtless smoker; because of 

 the increasing trend towards camping life and one thing and another, 

 the fire hazard has not only increased, in some ways, but the area of 

 such risks has been enlarged. Forest Quarterly. 



Taper of Logs. 



Rough logs taper more than clear smooth logs. Average taper 

 does not differ greatly in different localities or with different species. 

 As a result of measuring the average taper is found to be about one 

 inch in eight feet. 



A charge of shot will fall 8 inches in 40 yards. 



To dry shoes over night, heat a quart or so of pebbles and put a 

 pint in each shoe. 



Some of the new high-power smokeless cartridges have a breech 

 pressure of 40,000 pounds to the square inch. 



Wild ducks flying travel over 100 feet in a second. If fifty yards 

 away he will travel 15 feet in the time it takes for shot to reach him. 



It is much cheaper to prevent forest fires than to extinguish them. 

 Five minutes' work at a fire at its beginning is worth days of labor put 

 in after it has gained great headway. - 



The common surgeon's adhesive plaster makes a good emergency 

 mend for small cuts or punctures in a canoe. Just stick it on and iron 

 it fast with something hot. A stone heated in the fireplace will do the 

 trick. 



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