. Timber storage conditions in the eastern and southern states with reference to decay problems. ration with the United States Public Health Serviceare making strong efforts to get rid of rats to safeguard againstthe bubonic plague, certain ordinances have been passed requiringstructures to be raised at least 12 inches from the ground and leftopen beneath. This requirement will react very favorably upon lumber storage, for the firstnecessity is to get the timberoff the ground, with ampleventilation beneath. Figure22 illustrates the method ofelevating the skids em-ployed in a retail lumber-yard
. Timber storage conditions in the eastern and southern states with reference to decay problems. ration with the United States Public Health Serviceare making strong efforts to get rid of rats to safeguard againstthe bubonic plague, certain ordinances have been passed requiringstructures to be raised at least 12 inches from the ground and leftopen beneath. This requirement will react very favorably upon lumber storage, for the firstnecessity is to get the timberoff the ground, with ampleventilation beneath. Figure22 illustrates the method ofelevating the skids em-ployed in a retail lumber-yard at Mobile, Ala., whichhas only recently occupiedthe premises. Timber foundations arefrequently the cause of con-siderable trouble on accountof decay failure under heavyloads, thus allowing thepiles to topple over or tocrush to the ground, wherethey have every opportunityto rot. Figure 23 shows twosuch piles at a South Caro-lina mill. Eot in founda-tion timbers is extremelycommon and, in fact, has been encountered in practically every yardexamined where timbers are employed for this Fig. 17.—A 12 by 12 inch hard-pine timber,showing a rotten hole in the face which lay incontact with infected skids. PILING STICKS. Practically all yards in which the lumber is stuck fail to appreci-ate the necessity of keeping the sticks free from infection. The strongtendency is to scatter them about on the ground wherever they hap-pened to fall when the previous piles were taken down (fig. 2-i). Ina very few yards attempts are made to improve the appearance of thepremises by gathering the sticks endwise into conical piles or bystacking them carefully on the ground beneath the skids (fig. 25). TIMBEE STOKAGE IN THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN STATES. 21
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