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Facts In Cutting Timber

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
November
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Cut timber from tho middle of September to the middle of December, and jou cannot get a worm into it. Octoper and November are perhaps the best months, and sure to avoid tbe worms. Tot eut frorn March to June, and you cannot save the timber from the worms or borers. May used to be called peeling time ; much was then done in procunng bark for the tanneries, when the sap is up in the trunk and all the pores full of sap ; whereas in Ootober these pores are üll empty - Uien is the time to cut, and there will be no worms. When you 6ee an ox-bow with the bark tight, there are no worms, no powder-post, and you cannot saparate it trom be wooil, and what is true in one kind i true in all kinds of timber, and every kind has its peculiar kind of worm. - The pine has, I believe, the largest worms ;, and these worms work for rnany yoara. I have found tbem alive and at work in, white-oak spokes that I knew had been, ra my garret over twelve years, nd they were much largethan at first; tbey do nat stop in the sap, but continue in the eolid part. I do not think of buyiog timbar unloss it is cut ia the time above alluded tOi I have wondered that there ha not been more said on this subject, as it is one of great importance, even for firewood, and eupocially for shiobailding &.-

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Michigan Argus