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that less than 90 cubic feet was commonly delivered by dealers as the- 

 equivalent of a cord of long wood. If the standard of delivery could 

 be raised to this amount an improvement over existing conditions 

 would ensue. For a permanent standard for futvire use the amount, 

 should be between 95 and 100 cubic feet for 12-inch wood. 



Maximum Retail Prices and Specifications for Cordwood for the 

 New Haven District 



To Apply from October 15, 1918, until Further Notice 



* Maximum price allowed shall depend on quality. Dealers should have their 

 wood examined and listed as to quality. 



This schedule enabled the purchaser of wood to easily check up the 

 dealer and ascertain whether he had the proper measure. 



The dealers, of course, could not afford to pile up and get the stacked 

 cubic contents of every lot of wood delivered. For them the easiest 

 ])rocedure was to have a wagon or truck body into which the wood 

 could be thrown loose. This had been their custom in the past. Hence 

 no change in method was required. Most dealers had been in the 

 liabit of assuming 128 cubic feet of wood thrown in loose as equivalent 

 to the wood which came out of a cord of 5-foot wood. This is too low. 

 A few tests indicated that 90 cubic feet of 12-inch wood piled, when 

 thrown in loose into a truck body. occu])ied 140 cubic feet of space, and 

 that 105 cubic feet of 2oinch wood occupied 170 cubic feet of space. 



These figures compare closely with those secured in Cook's experi- 



