Experienced lumbermen have always held that timber cut in the spring, was not durable for building purposes. Recent scientific investigations sustain this belief. It is shown that the richer the wood is in phosphoric acid and potassium the more likely it is to rot and mould ; wood cut in the spring contains eight times as much of the former and . five times as much of the latter as when cut in the winter.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XII, Issue 596, 18 December 1885, Page 3
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