Excerpt from The Properties and Uses of Wood

In this book an attempt is made to present in as non - technical a manner as is consistent with clearness and accuracy, the more important facts concerning the properties of wood and how these properties affect its utilization. Of late years there has been considerable demand for more definite information concerning timber than ordinarily can be obtained in practice or in the trade. Instead of general Opinions and impressions as to strength, shrinkage, durability, etc. The lumber manufacturer, dealer, and user want the results of carefully conducted tests. This desire for more information is prompted largely by the increasing price of lumber which is due principally to the rapid depletion of our forests.

A large part of the information contained herein has resulted from researches of the Forest Products Laboratory maintained by the United States Forest Service in Cooperation with the Uni versity of Wisconsin. This Laboratory is the largest and best equipped of its kind in the world. During its fourteen years of existence it has accumulated a vast fund of facts and data con cerning wood. To get this information together, condense the more important matter and leave out much of the detail, though interesting and valuable, was no small task. Throughout the volume the author has constantly striven for accuracy in so far as it was possible to obtain accurate data. In some cases the data presented are old or based on a meager number of tests, but they are in every case the latest and most authentic available. In many cases references are given so that the reader may follow up the subject if he chooses, but no attempt is made to give a complete bibliography of any subject. Only the more important and available publications have, as a rule, been cited.

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