 | Ritter Brown - Social problems - 1911 - 334 pages
...It serves to ornament them, to furnish them with conveniences, to warm them, to cook the food. . . . The forest furnishes the cooperage to market our vintage,...store our flour and fruit. " The forest furnishes the plow-handle and the harrow-frame to cultivate, the threshing-machine am windmill to prepare the crops,... | |
 | Howard Thompson Lewis, Stephen Ivan Miller - Industries - 1923 - 576 pages
...an essential commodity at all times. Dr. Fernow has vividly pictured this in the following words : "The forest furnishes the cooperage to market our...store our flour and fruit. The forest furnishes the plow handle and the harrow frame to cultivate, the threshing machine and the wind, mill to prepare... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 518 pages
...realize the large proportion of the conveniences of life that are, wholly or in part, made from forests. "The forest furnishes the cooperage to market our...store our flour and fruit. The forest furnishes the plow handle and the harrow-frame to cultivate, the threshing machine and the windmill to prepare the... | |
 | Bernhard Eduard Fernow - Business & Economics - 1902 - 548 pages
...700,000,000 of wooden ties and need 140,000,000 annually for renewals ; l they run over more than 2000 miles of wooden trestles and bridges, they carry their...freight is shipped in wooden boxes and barrels, and 1 This drain on our forest resources for railroad ties or sleepers, which requires a wasteful use of... | |
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... about you and see the many articles made wholly or in part from wood. In our homes and out of them, wood, in the form of useful articles, is at hand everywhere. From the cradle to the grave it plays an important part in our daily lives. An eminent... 