VALUES OF SAWDUST.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 15

VALUES OF SAWDUST.

Sawdust and wood waste form the taw material for a score of by-products. .Your newspaper is made of wood-pulp from sawdust; your cabinetmaker uses solid blocks of fine higly polished wood made from sawdust mixed with gum or alum. Sawdust is also used in making certain acids, tar, charcoal, pavement, and for producing the naphtha with which you clean your gloves. Even the needles of pine trees are now made into a fibre used in stuffing sofa cushions and as a wadding for overcoats. Acids which, were formerly allowed to escape into the air as gases are now saved and used for bleaching your bheets. Good perfumes are made from the ill-smelling oils resulting from the Histillatronof whisky; -Even the skitii milk of erearaerie* is prepared ns ■ a sizing for paper. „ . ... ... Yota may sell the old bottles and bro- .- ken glass. ir»-your celtar, .by .the way, to. certain manufacturers as- material; for the artificial stone - which- forms the pavement in front of-your-hou»?..