. Timber storage conditions in the eastern and southern states with reference to decay problems. ev-eral species of wood-destroying fungiwere frequentlynoted in the piles. When one keeps inmind the fact thatthe soil in and aboutlumberyards oftenbecomes, in thecourse of time, thor-oughly intermixedwith sawdust andpartially decomposed woody matter which offers a fertile field for thedevelopment of wood-destroying fungi, the necessity of keeping all sound material outof contact with it be-comes verv- cases where saw-dust and bark orwood debris are usedto produce artificialfills the dan
. Timber storage conditions in the eastern and southern states with reference to decay problems. ev-eral species of wood-destroying fungiwere frequentlynoted in the piles. When one keeps inmind the fact thatthe soil in and aboutlumberyards oftenbecomes, in thecourse of time, thor-oughly intermixedwith sawdust andpartially decomposed woody matter which offers a fertile field for thedevelopment of wood-destroying fungi, the necessity of keeping all sound material outof contact with it be-comes verv- cases where saw-dust and bark orwood debris are usedto produce artificialfills the danger isfurther filling mate-rials are not infre-quently used. Such situations in-troduce the furtherquestion as to whatmaterial should beused for filling inlow portions of the yards. While the material used will necessarilybe governed largely by local conditions, it is the opinion of the writer Fig. 18.—Pile foundations consisting of creosoted timbersresting on concrete piers in use at the Forest ProductsLaboratory, Madison, Wis. This is a yery satisfactorytype of Fig. 19.—Concrete foundations with untreated skid tim-bers in general use in a mill yard at Laurel, Miss. Onlytwo rows of piers are used for stock 14 feet or less inlength. 22 BULLETIX 510, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTUEE.
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