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I consider the results equal to anything yet put on the market in the 

 way of artificially seasoned timber for flooring boards." 



Another source from which clean timiber im^ported from the other 

 States and abroad is liable to infestation, is some of our own timber 

 yards, for I have seen several where the timber was badly infested with 

 furniture beetles. As the timber merchants in the other States, espe- 



Portion of a Window Sill destroyed by Furnitaire Beetles. 



eially Tasmania, are taking every precaution to remove all sapwood and 

 send us absolutely clean timber, it behoves the timiber merchants in 

 Victoria to do their utmost to keep their yards free from the borer 

 trouble, otherwise the fine impoi'ted timber which we now receive will 

 become infested. This would create another scare, and do a great injus- 

 tice to our Inter-State neighbours. 



