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Show PAPER FROM POPLAR.-It surprises people to see the great logs of poplar wood go through the powerful machine at the Connecticut River Pulp Mill, at Holyoke. The wood, as it is brought to the mill, is about the size of cordwood used for fuel, and in this shape the machine takes it and gnaws it up very fine. So rapidly does this process go on that the machine eats about seven and a half cords of wood a day, and this makes between three and four tons of pulp. After coming from the machine the wood is put into vats and reduced by the action of chemicals. It is used for the manufacture of book and news paper. The wood is obtained mostly from Canada.-Boston Transcript. |