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ments,® where the average for 12-inch wood was 145 cubic feet and 

 for 16-inch wood 160 cubic feet. No experiments were made by him 

 with 20-inch wood. 



As a result of the wood-fuel work certain conclusions, which are 

 summarized below, have been formed : 



1. A method of measurement for cordwood should be adopted which 

 would enable the purchaser to accurately and quickly determine the 

 measure received. 



2. To accomplish this, the unit should be expressed in cubic feet of 

 piled wood of a given length. 



3. Such a method of measurement already is in common use for long 

 (4 or 5 foot) wood; a pile containing 128 cubic feet of piled v.'ood 

 constitutes a cord. 



4. Following as closely as possible the system used for 5-foot wood 

 in measuring wood in short lengths, either (i) the number of cubic 

 feet of space (128) occupied by the 5-foot wood may be accepted as 

 the unit or (2) the amount of solid wood contained in the pile of 5-foot 

 wood may be taken as the unit, and the space occupied by this solid 

 wood when sawed into various short lengths and piled be determined 

 and taken as the standard number of cubic feet of piled wood, equiva- 

 lent for that length to one cord of 5-foot wood. 



Both methods have an equally sound basis, but the latter is the better, 

 since it follows more closely accepted business practice. 



5. The actual amount of piled wood of a given length secured from 

 sawing up a cord of 5-foot wood will vary with the character of the 

 wood ; to what extent is not definitely known. 



6. Hence the standard amounts should be derived and applied re- 

 gionally. 



7. For southern Connecticut the standard amounts should probably 

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

 TOO and no cubic feet for 20-inch wood. 



8. Retail wood dealers are not likely to live up to any selling unit 

 until a unit is established which will make it easy for the purchaser to 

 measure accurately cordwood in short lengths. 



' Measurement of Fuehvood, by H. O. Cook. Cook's experiments were made 

 with 4-foot wood. As a cord of 5-foot wood contains only about 95 per cent of 

 the solid contents of a cord of 4-foot wood, it is to be expected that a cord of 

 4-foot wood sawed into short lengths and thrown into a bin loose will occupy 

 more space than a cord of 5-foot wood similarly treated. 



