THE SERVICE OF TREES
How many uses can you think of for trees? Here are some. The ash tree is used for aeroplanes, cart-wheels, and many other things; the oak for rail wagons and furniture; the larch for pit props, the spruce for violins and artificial silk, the willow, for cricket bats, just to mention a few of their common services,
Nearly all of us today sleep beneath timber rafters, eat off wood, read off it—since paper is mainly derived from spruce pulp—float on it and fly on it! Yet, strange as it may seem, people are very careless of the forest stocks, and leave glowing fires, matches, and cigarette ends about.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 19
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112THE SERVICE OF TREES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 19
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