Report of Proceedings ... Annual Meeting of the Wood Preservers' Association, Volumen6

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American Wood Preservers' Association, 1910
Contents of Proceedings in previous years, included in v. 8- (in v. 8-12 the period covered dates from 1910; in v. 13- from 1905).
 

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Página 40 - If there is no further discussion on this paper we will proceed to the next one, which is entitled "Sewage Disposal, an Experiment and an Experience,
Página 154 - The timber privately owned is not only four times that publicly owned, but it is generally more valuable. Forestry is now practiced on 70 per cent of the forests publicly owned and on less than 1 per cent of the forests privately owned, or on only 18 per cent of the total area of forests. The...
Página 6 - Any person whose dues are more than three months in arrears shall be notified by the Secretary. Should his dues not be paid when they become six months in arrears, he shall lose the right to vote or to receive the publications of the Society. Should his dues become nine months in arrears, he shall again be notified in form prescribed by the Board of Direction...
Página 6 - ARTICLE V. Officers. Section 1. The officers of the Association shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a...
Página 154 - One-fourth of the standing timber is lost in logging. The boxing of long-leaf pine for turpentine has destroyed one-fifth of the forests worked. The loss in the mill is from one-third to two-thirds of the timber sawed. The loss of mill product in seasoning and fitting for use is from one-seventh to one-fourth.
Página 154 - We take from our forests each year, not counting the loss by fire, three and one-half times their yearly growth.
Página 151 - Unfortunately, American operators do not even get the fullest use of the limited quantity of coal tar made in this country, for it does not pay the operators to distill coal tar for creosote alone; so, unless they can find a market for the associated products, it is not separated. Germany has gone far ahead of the United States in the development of coal-tar products, and her exports of them to this country are steadily increasing.
Página 76 - Faith, in its most general sense, is the assent of the mind to the truth of what is .declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity without other evidence.
Página 7 - Direction shall make an annual report at the Annual Meeting, transmitting the report of the Treasurer and of other officers, and of Committees.
Página 64 - What Per Cent of Creosote Oil Can Be Withdrawn from Wood by Subsequent Vacuum...

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