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Measuring fire weather and forest inflammability

Creator:

Gisborne, Harry Thomas, 1893-1949 and United States. Department of Agriculture

Abstract:

In the measurement of fire weather and forest inflammability, now practiced regularly at more than 90 forest stations in northern Idaho and western Montana, it is necessary to use many methods that are peculiar to this work. Some of these methods are familiar to meteorologists, but few foresters have had...

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Technical Report
Selection, installation, finish and maintenance of wood floors for dwellings

Creator:

Helphenstine, R. K. (Rufus King), b. 1882, Browne, F. L. (Frederick Lincoln), 1895-, and United States. Department of Agriculture

Abstract:

The popularity of wood for floors of dwellings dates back to pioneer days, when our forefathers used thick, hewed sections of log smoothed as far as possible on one face with an adz and laid edge to edge to make their puncheon floors . Later, during colonial days, when sawed...

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Technical Report

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Laboratory to b e sufficiently strong to avoid the necessity of having each end joint bea r directly on a
Utilization of black locust

Creator:

Cuno, J. B. (John Brown), 1894- and United States. Department of Agriculture

Abstract:

The wood of black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, is used chiefly for insulator pins, wagon hubs, treenails, fence posts, and mine timbers. For these uses it is admirable because of its hardness, strength, and durability. A valuable characteristic of the tree is its rapid growth on many types of soils during...

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Technical Report

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insuring a mor e constant supply of material, and material that is generally bette r in quality than that