'Wood and Forest' by William Noyes, M.A
by William Noyes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Noyes, William, 1862-1928
- Title
- Wood and Forest
- Credits
- Produced by Lesley Halamek, Peter Vachuska, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SD: Agriculture: Forestry
- Subject
- Wood
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 35419
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35419
- Release Date
- February 27, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's Note: — WOOD AND FOREST — By WILLIAM NOYES, M.A. — NEW YORK CITY — FOREWORD
- 2.CONTENTS. — GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 3.Chapter I. — THE STRUCTURE OF WOOD. — THE GRAIN OF WOOD.
- 4.Chapter II. — PROPERTIES OF WOOD. — THE HYGROSCOPICITY 1 OF WOOD. — THE SHRINKAGE OF WOOD. — THE WEIGHT OF WOOD. — THE STRENGTH OF WOOD. — CLEAVABILITY OF WOOD. — ELASTICITY OF WOOD. — HARDNESS OF WOOD. — TOUGHNESS OF WOOD.
- 5.Chapter III. — THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF AMERICAN WOODS. — 1 — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — 7 — 8 — 9 — 10 — 11 — 12 — 13 — 14 — 15 — 16 — 17 — 18 — 19 — 20 — 21 — 22 — 23 — 24 — 25 — 26 — 27 — 28 — 29 — 30 — 31 — 32 — 33 — 34 — 35 — 36 — 37 — 38 — 39 — 40 — 41 — 42 — 43 — 44 — 45 — 46 — 47 — 48 — 49 — 50 — 51 — 52 — 53 — 54 — 55 — 56 — 57 — 58 — 59 — 60 — 61 — 62 — 63 — 64 — 65 — 66 — 67
- 6.Chapter IV. — THE DISTRIBUTION AND COMPOSITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN FORESTS.
- 7.Chapter V. — THE FOREST ORGANISM. — SOIL. — MOISTURE. — TEMPERATURE. — LIGHT.
- 8.Chapter VI. — NATURAL ENEMIES OF THE FOREST. — METEOROLOGICAL FORCES. — VEGETABLE ENEMIES. — ANIMAL ENEMIES.
- 9.Chapter VII. — THE EXHAUSTION OF THE FOREST. — FIRE. — DESTRUCTIVE LUMBERING.
- 10.Chapter VIII. — THE USE OF THE FOREST. — UTILIZATION. — PRESERVATION. — IMPROVEMENT.
- 11.Appendix. — HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF WOOD. * — By B. E. Fernow and Filibert Roth. — HOW TO USE THE KEY. — KEY TO THE MORE IMPORTANT WOODS OF NORTH AMERICA. — I.— Non-Porous Woods . — II.— Ring-Porous Woods . — III.— Diffuse-Porous Woods .
- 12.INDEX.
- 13.Books on the Manual Arts — Published by
- 14.Manual Arts Press :: Peoria, Illinois
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