Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1905 — How Wood Is Colored. [ARTICLE]

How Wood Is Colored.

The colored wood industry began In Italy In the seventeenth century, and wood coloring works came to Sweden during the Thirty Years' war, hut until quite recently the method was used

on a very small scale. Now, by the method invented by the Austrian Joseph I’hister in 1901, the wood is colored when fresh. The tree is cut while the sap is in action, and in the coloring process the dye is forced under heavy pressure into the wood and replaces the sap. The manufacturers can color to a length of thirteen feet. Birch, beech, alder, maple, elm and basswood are the best kinds of wood for the purpose. Oak is not good on account of the tannic acid, and in spruce and pine the color cannot be made uniform. The wood looks best when polished. The prices are yet comparatively high on account of the waste, but improvements may follow. It can be used in furniture, panels and doors; also In outside work in order to avoid paint-

ing. It is especially good for fitting ships and tram cars.—Report of United States Consul Bergh, Gothenburg, Sweden. PnaalnK of Old Vermont Stoclc. “There were three marriages, six births and twenty-two deaths in town last year. A gloomy look, certainly.” So says the newspaper correspondence of one of our Vermont towns. It is indeed a “gloomy look.” Not only Is the old stock dying out, but there Is no infusion of new. Think of the proportion of births to deaths. Where one child is born in this Vermont community there are four deaths. Little wonder that the state’B population Is practically at ft standstill. —Barre Times.

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