Conservation Reader 



American Forestry Association 



The Laplander of the far North uses the reindeer to puU his sled, its flesh for food, 

 its skin for clothing, and its horns for various purposes. 



the fibers of certain plants, or hair or wool, to protect their 

 bodies against the cold and the wet. They learned, some- 

 how, to tan the skins of animals, so that they would not 

 first stretch and grow slippery. They learned to hold 

 things together by sewing, using sharp bones for needles 

 and the sinews of animals or fibers of plants for thread. 



How did men discover that they could travel on the 

 water? Some one may at first have made use of a log to 

 cross a river and, afterwards, have tied several logs together, 

 making a raft. When they had learned how to make a 

 canoe out of a log, by burning or hewing it out with rude 

 axes, they could then take long journeys on the water to 

 new lands. Since paddling was very tiresome, some one, 

 brighter than the rest, probably thought of making a sail 

 of bark or skins and so letting the wind push the canoe along. 



We do not know how the metals were discovered. Per- 



