Identifier: architectenginee11935sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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FLOWER POTS AND PLANTS. TILED WALKS AND ROOF, ALLHELP TO CREATE THE SPANISH FEELING THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER -^ 44 ^ JANUARY, NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE Termite Fight by C. A. Kofoid T. HINK over the itemswhich entered into your noon meal andsee how many of them came from the stor-ed products of the plant world, such assugar, starch, and vegetable oil, and howfew, if any, even of the proteins used,came from animals with the power to di-gest wood. Even the fabled Dutchmanshorse, with his economic diet of sawdust,never grew fat on that diet. It is only thetermites and a few other insects who havesuccessfully solved the problem of makinguse of the celluloses as food. This depen-dence of termites on cellulose as food isthe basic cause of the termite problem. Mans over-increasing use of lumber inthe building industries provides killed woodwhich is more nutritious than naturallydead wood for termite food. In nature,wood-eating termites depend upon thefallen trees for their food supply. Manimmen

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