Here are a few of the uses made of sawdust and forest waste in America: "Silk" socks, whieh look like silk and feel like silk, but are cheaper than the real thing; sawdust sausage casings in which wood, converted by chemical processes into viscoe is used instead of the old type of sausage casings, produced from the byproduct of the slaughterhouse: woodflour phonograph records, compressed under enormous power, to help make music from sawdust; tanbark shingles madefrom the waste hemlock bark after it has been through the tannery.; and paper cork bottles to help fighi the high cost of living.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 553, 30 July 1920, Page 2
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100Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 553, 30 July 1920, Page 2
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