Foster, Edwin W. [from old catalog] · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 560
will apparently grow rapidlyagain. The cause of this cannot be determinedwithout a knowledge of the trees history. It has been proved by experiment that thinningthe forest increases the growth of the remainingtrees 18 per cent., and these peculiarities inthe rings may have been due to some like… … LUMBER 527 The effect of it is shown in Fig. 239. The outsidedrawing together has opened the wood, or checked it, most at the outside, diminishing toward theeentre. feftTOTgS^ Fig. 239. Warping, wind, and shrinkage. The evaporation would have occurred just the samehad the log been cut into planks,…
Carpentry · Woodwork
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