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Title: Seasoning of Wood

Author: Joseph B. Wagner

Release Date: September 12, 2008 [EBook #26598]

Language: English

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SEASONING OF WOOD

A TREATISE ON THE NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN THE PREPARATION
OF LUMBER FOR MANUFACTURE,
WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS OF ITS
USES, CHARACTERISTICS AND PROPERTIES

_ILLUSTRATIONS_
BY
JOSEPH B. WAGNER
AUTHOR OF "COOPERAGE"

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY
25 PARK PLACE
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY

THE.PLIMPTON.PRESS
NORWOOD.MASS.U.S.A

PREFACE

The seasoning and kiln-drying of wood is such an important process in
the manufacture of woods that a need for fuller information regarding
it, based upon scientific study of the behavior of various species at
different mechanical temperatures, and under different drying
processes is keenly felt. Everyone connected with the woodworking
industry, or its use in manufactured products, is well aware of the
difficulties encountered in properly seasoning or removing the
moisture content without injury to the timber, and of its
susceptibility to atmospheric conditions after it has been thoroughly
seasoned. There is perhaps no material or substance that gives up its
moisture with more resistance than wood does. It vigorously defies the
efforts of human ingenuity to take away from it, without injury or
destruction, that with whic