FLOATING AND RAFTING 
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cable inserted and made fast by a wooden plug driven in be- 
hind it. The sections are fastened together by rope, and made 
into a long raft which is towed to the mill by small tugs. Navi- 
gation is seriousl}^ hampered and sometimes stopped 1)}' the 
Fig. 156. — Raft Bundles at the Mill Pond. North Carolina. 
congestion of the watercourses by the water hyacinth and mills 
have been forced to shut down on account of the lack of logs, 
due to the closing of the waterwaj^s by this plant. 
Raft Bundles. — In the Coastal Plain region logs are sometimes 
made into bundles each containing two car loads of logs, from 20 
