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cent of water (15 per cent calculated upon oven dry weight) pre- 

 vented decay in loblolly pine sap and 67 per cent (200 per cent on oven 

 dry weight) in Sitka spruce. Inasmuch as it has previously been shown 

 that logs sprayed a short time contained i)2-i)0 per cent of water and 

 as the pulp logs are of about the same density as the loblolly pine sap, 

 it is concluded that spraying for fire protection carries with it no danger 

 of favoring serious loss through decay. 



Snell, Walter H. The Relation of the Moisture Content of IVood to Its Decay. 

 Paper Trade Journal 72: 44-46, 2 figs, 1921, and other pulp and paper journals. 



Discusses tires in log piles and decay of pulp 

 To Prevent Fire wood where moisture content is suitable. Sug- 

 and Decay gcsts the placing of dry wood where it will re- 



main dry and keeping the wet wood by spraying 

 water on them, both to prevent fire and decay. 



W. H. S. 



Hoxie, F. J. Fire Prevention in Pulpwood by Means of A>-tificial Fog. Pulp 

 and Paper Mag., Canada, Jan. G and 13, 1920. 15 figs. 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY 



A telegram from Moscow states that accord- 



Russia's ing to reports from the Forest Central Manage - 



JVood Stocks ment for wood export, the stocks on Januriry 1st 



amounted to the following: 



In the five northerly and the three northwesterly Governments 



about 200,000 standards of specified sawed goods are ready for export. 



At Astrakan -1,000 standards, and in Tsaritsin 3,000 standards, which 



parcels have been delivered to the commissaries for foreign trade, for 



export to Persia. 



Of the goods not specified which are taken into consideration there 

 are in the five northerly Governments about 100,000 standards, 

 whereof about 20,000 standards are in Petrograd and 20,000 in Arch- 

 angel. In addition to this, about 7,000,000 cubic feet of timber and 

 200,000 cubic feet of oak and hardwoods, also 300,000 cubic feet of 

 staves, are reported as being in existence. 

 The Timber Trades Journal, June 4, 1921, page 1431. 



