. Seasoning of wood; a treatise on the natural and artificial processes employed in the preparation of lumber for manufacture . turned back in the opposite direction. These alternations were repeated periodically, the bark sharing in these changes. form and smooth, but is channelled and pitted by numer-ous depressions, which differ greatly in size and , any one depression or elevation is restricted toone or few annual layers {, seen only in one or few rings)and is then lost, being compensated (the surface at theparticular spot evened up) by growth. In some woods,however, any de
. Seasoning of wood; a treatise on the natural and artificial processes employed in the preparation of lumber for manufacture . turned back in the opposite direction. These alternations were repeated periodically, the bark sharing in these changes. form and smooth, but is channelled and pitted by numer-ous depressions, which differ greatly in size and , any one depression or elevation is restricted toone or few annual layers {, seen only in one or few rings)and is then lost, being compensated (the surface at theparticular spot evened up) by growth. In some woods,however, any depression or elevation once attained growsfrom year to year and reaches a maximum size, which ismaintained for many years, sometimes throughout maple, where this tendency to preserve any particularcontour is very great, the depressions and elevations are 88 SEASONING OF WOOD usually small (commonly less than one-eighth inch) butvery numerous. On tangent boards of such wood, the sections, pits, andprominences appear as circlets, and give rise to the beauti-ful birds eye or landscape structure. Similiar struct- i;ft.
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