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sawdust was used for any other purpose ? Several whom 

 I asked about this gave me the answer that when it 

 is dry, it is used as fuel, til bransle, and that it is 

 sold in woodless districts ' per bushels ' or by the ton, 

 tunntals, to be used for that purpose. 



Bokars alder. The age of the Beeches. 



In one of the largest beeches which was here cut 

 down we counted the sap-rings, saf-ringarna, to get to 

 know the age of the tree, as well as to see how good the 

 soil was to drive the tree quickly to size. Some four 

 inches above the ground the diameter was 3 feet 6 inches 

 exactly. We counted here eighty-six sap-rings, which 

 showed that the age of the tree was eighty-six years. 

 The innermost and outermost sap-rings were narrow 

 enough, viz., from one-sixth to one-eighth inch thick, but 

 at the time when the tree was about thirty years old it 

 had made the strongest growth annually in thickness, for 

 a single sap-ring was then often as much as half an inch 

 thick. Seldom was there one under a quarter-inch thick, 

 P6ga var nagon under, &C., but they were com- 

 monly between a quarter and half-inch. 



[T. I. p. 244.] It was very easy to measure the 

 diameter of the stock, stoeken, for it was cut down 

 with the saw, med sag kullsagad. The length of 

 this stock, from the large end to the little end, was 

 29 feet 6 inches. The sap-rings were afterwards counted 

 at the small end, when the age of the tree showed sixty- 

 five years. The diameter was here 19 inches ; 2 feet 

 6 inches above where the tree was cut off near the root 

 its diameter was 2 feet 8 inches. The periphery at the 

 same place was 8 good feet. 



En eks alder. An oak's age. 



An oak stub was measured to see how old it was, 



when we found from the sap-rings that its age was forty 



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