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Practical arboriculture
“how forests influence climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity; a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers. How, where and what to plant for the rapid production of lumber, cross-ties, telegraph poles and other timbers, with original photographs by the author.”
1906454 pages~8½h read
only cover on file
Practical arboriculture
“how forests influence climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity; a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers. How, where and what to plant for the rapid production of lumber, cross-ties, telegraph poles and other timbers, with original photographs by the author.”
1906454 pages~8½h read
“Protection of forests from fires, how to prevent and how to extinguish them before too great an area shall have been destroyed, construction and maintenance of fire guards along natural base lines carefully prepared and managed so as to prevent the spread of fires which may have been started from any cause, are important subjects included in arboriculture.”