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Title: Canadian forest industries 1885
Identifier: canadianforest1885donm (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 325 LUMBERMAN'S PRINTING AND STATIONERY. We can supply anything in the line of BOOKS, BLANKS or STATIONERY for Lumber Shanties and Offices at City Prices, and everything necessary to a complete office outfit. All PRINTING done in the Highest Style of the Art, and at Loivest Living Prices. BOOK-BINDING of every description got up in a Neat and Superior manner. ACCOUNT BOOKS Ruled and Bound to any desired pattern. Address: "THE CANADA LUMBERMAN," Peterborough, Ont.
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Heavy and Portable Saw-Mills And Saw-Mill Machinery, SHINGLE MILLS, new & old pattern. GANG LATH MILLS, GANG TRIMMERS and EDGERS. SELF-ACTING BOX BOARD MACHINE. AMERICAN SOLID and INSERTED TOOTH SAWS. SAW GUMMERS, SAW SWAGES. ALL KINDS OF SAW TEETH. GANDY BELTING, large stock of all sizes kept. EWART LINK BELTING—For Con- veying, Elevating and Driving. Extensively used in all the large Mills, and fast superseding Wrought Iron Chain. KNIGHT'S EXCELSIOR MILL DOG. Send for New Circulars, stating- your wants and mentioning this paper. TWIN ENGINE STEAM FEED Guaranteed the best feed for large Mills yet invented. EASTERN OFFICE: 154 St. James St., Montreal Waterous Engine Works Co, Brantford and Winnipeg QUEBEC CULLERS' OFFICE. The following is a comparative statement of Timber, Masts, Bowsprits, Spars, Staves, &c measured and culled to date :— 1883. 1884. 1885. Wanev White Pine.. 2,566,303 1,929.145 2,359,563 White Pine 5,338,537 3,493,102 1,877,017 Red Pine 386,708 299.751 62,791 Oak 1,428,630 706,100 1,437,325 Elm 302,526 644,073 961,537 Ash 223,471 380,117 256,284 Basswood 2,244 4,415 47 Butternut 1,028 1.121 3,083 Tamarac 5.159 18,863 3,504 Birch 4 Maple 138.766 195,175 380,381 Masts 4 Bowsprits... —pes —pes —pes Spars — pea 41 pes 17 pes Std. Staves 54r.l.2.28 45.6.J 26 45.8.2.10 W. I. Staves 453.4.0.26 78.2.2.10 81.8.0.20 Brl. Staves 87.2.0.3 0.6.2.13 195.9.3.25 JAMES PATTON, Quebec, Sept. 25. Supervisor of Cullers. THE OLDEST SOCIETT ON EARTH. The Vegetarian Society of Great Be itain ap- pears to be making excellent progress. At the last annual meeting recently held in London, a large number of distinguished men and women were present and took part in the proceedings. The president. Professor Mayor, of Cambridge university, deliverel a humorous and highly instructive speech. He Btated that the order of vegetarians was not only the oldest of any on earth, but that it was the most ex- tensive. It had its origin in Eden, The eminent ancient Peruvians and Mexicans were all mem- bers of it. A majority of the people < f India China, and Japan are vegetarians. Among the old-time vegetarians were Pythagoras, Zeno, Socrates, Epicurus, Senec», and Plutarch. The Roman porridge eaters, the Persian1* of Cyrus the Greeks of Lsi.nidas, the Swedesof Gustavus assa, the miners of Chili, and the Hud-on Bay trappers ate scarcely anything but vegetables, endured privation, withstood hardships, gained the admiration of the world. Converts were being made from all clases. Men of wealth, who had stuffed themselves with roast beef and paddings abounding in animal fat till they were laid up with the gout, were forced to confine themselves to a vegetable diet, when they usu- ally regained their health. People who could not abtain money to procure meat were obliged to live on vegetabless. In the majorty of cases they were soon satisfied with the change. The speaker referred to Professor Beketoff, rector of St. Petersburg university,who declared that the future is with the vegetarians. The reason was plain. Ten vegetarians would live where ameat-eater wonld starve. The time was soon coming when the popnlation of many countries could not be supported if any consider- able portion of the land was devoted to raising animals for food. Animal substances were fast becoming displaced by those made of minerals or vegetables. Geese were once kept partly for the purpose of supplying large quill for making pens. The metal pen has driven •ut that made from a quill. Not long ago, million of skins where wanted every year for making parchment. Papers made of vegetables has superseded parchment for almost all purposes Gutta-percha and Indian rubber where fast taking the place of leather. Feathers are no longer necessary for filling beds. Brushes are made without bristles, and the best combs are made from other materials than born. Tallow was no longer needed for making candles. A much better article could be manu- factured from paraffine. Animal and fish oils were not employed for filling lamps. Kerosene has taken their place. The streets and buildings were now lighted by gas made from coal. Gas, electricity, or mineral oil would furnish the light of the future. Butter is giving place to fruit jam and vegetable oils. Vegetable sub- stances are finding their way into cbeeee. Even animal power was being superseded. Horses made of iron and drawn by steam were trans- porting most of the passengers and goods in all civilized countries. Gas, wind, water, steam, and the tides were being called into the service of man. Even the saddle horse was fast being displaced by the bicycle and tricycle. Cheap and rapid transportation has rendered it easy to bring the vegetable products of one country to another. Horticulture is making most rapid progress everywhere. The art of preserving vegetables was being brought to a state of per fection.—Chicago Times. ATMOSPHERE AND TEMPERATURE. The proper regulation of the atmosphere as to moisture and temperature, is ono of the most important points to be observed in cultivating plants in the parlor or window garden. Plants will not flourish, bloom and be healthy in a dry, dusty atmosphere, even though the best of care otherwise may be bestowed upon them ; hence it is that those who attempt to raise plants in their dwellings moet with so little success. There is an immense contrast between the atmosphere of a well regulated green- house and that of an ordinary dwelling. In the green- house the air is moist and well tempered to the healthful growth of plantB ; while that of the parlor or sitting room is invariably dry and dusty, and plants will not flourish in it as they would in the conserva- tory. It the dwelling be heated by coal, there is more or less gas constantly discharged into the air of the room, which is of itself enough to destroy vegetation, or make it sickly. Houses heated by steam are better adapted to the culti- vation of plants. All plants will not flourish in the common temperature of a living-room; some require a low temperature, and others need a warmer one. The following plants require a temperature of from seventy to eighty degrees in the daytime, and fifty-five degrees to sixty at night: begoniaB, coleuses, calceolarias, bouvar- dias, ferns (tropical), hibiscuses, poinsettias, tuberoses, heliotropes, crotons, hoyas, cactuses, all kinds, caladiuma, cannas, palms, orange and lemon trees, geraniums, etc. The following will do well in an atmosphere ranging from fifty degrees to sixty degrees by day, and forty degrees to forty-five degrees by night: camellias, azaleas, oleanders, roses, car- nations, callas, ivies, abutilons, Hollandbulds lily of the valley, primroses, violets, verbenas, chrysanthemumst, etc. Plants will flourish better in the kitchen, where the steam and moisture from cooking are constantly arising and tempering the atmosphere, that in a dry, dusty sitting room. Hence it is that we 6nd "Bridget" sometimes cultivating a few plants in her kitch- en window, that are envied by the mistress of the house, because they are so much finer than those in the parlor or Bitting room. If a pan of water is set upon a stove in a room where plants are growing, it will help to materially relieve the dryness of the atmosphere. But most of all kinds of house plants will do fairly in a uniform temperature, from seventy degrees by day to fifty-five by night. Careful observation of the habits and reqirements of different kinds of plants, as they come under our care, will greatly assist the cultivator, and in a short time he will be so conversant with their various habits as to know just how to properly treat each plant in his collection. Where plants requiring different methods of care and treatment can be grouped together and placed conviently by themselves, it will be well to do so ; such a plan will greatly facilitate matters, and the results will prove the advisability of carefully ronsidering temperature and atmos- phere.—American Agriculturalist. Worms often destroy children, but Freeman's Worm Powders destroy Worms, and expel them from the system.

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