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Show TIMBER HAB MANY USES. Value of Standing Wood That Mas Been Through Flames. Tho traveler 'Who has vbndercd why some nse la not mado of tho timber that lew been flre-klllcd .nil over tho country will bo interested to learn that the illnltcd States foryst service at the TJnlversity of Washing ton, Seattle, "has discovered a mains of Minting 1Mb timber, which in tho past has largely gone to waste. In testing flro-klllea timber that Is, timber tim-ber which ha Us bark destroyed 'by a flro not severe enough to entirely conrumo the tree, nnd which left it standing It wire found to bo thoroughly thorough-ly sound and, to-all Intents 'and purposes, pur-poses, thoroughly seasoned lumber. It was determined that if buc1 lumber Is cut within the first year after it irf'Jn-Jurod irf'Jn-Jurod It can be 'Used for nny pnrposo for which the 'original wood Is satis-factory, satis-factory, but ir allowed to stnnd Oio timber checks sso badly that it cannot can-not bo worked up to advantage. It ha3 ateo been fllccloscd by 'investigations 'investiga-tions undertaken t,hat good railroad tins havo been mado from timber that In somo lustnncoa-was killed 50 years ago, Philadelphia Record. |