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SELLING LUMBER 



Inspectors 

 Handle Stock 

 as They 

 Find It 



Difference in 

 Value of 

 Partition and 

 Flooring 



Grooved 

 Roofing 

 Worth More 

 Than Shiplap 



Mr. Jones: In case of inspection for the adjustment of a 

 claim, the inspector is required to handle the stock just as he finds 

 it. He has no authority whatever to deduct, or cut back and raise 

 the grade. That is a penalty that is attached to the mill for shipping 

 lumber that is not properly manufactured now, while I am here 

 I will answer these other questions. One question is, "What is the 

 most serious objections to kiln-drying number 2 common?" My 

 experience has been that in kiln-drying number 2 common it will 

 degrade say 40% on account of shakes that open up and knots that 

 fall out. There are knots that will retain their place in the piece for 

 all practical purposes if it is air-dried, but if it is kiln-dried they 

 fall out and reduce the grade to a number 3 or number 4 common 

 as the case may be. 



The next question is, "Why is B and better partition worth at 

 least two dollars per thousand more than flooring?" In manufac- 

 turing flooring they only grade one side. They may center match 

 it, or they may standard match it, but they grade only one side. 

 The reverse side may be two or three grades lower, in fact, as 

 they don't pay a great deal of attention to the reverse side of floor- 

 ing; but in manufacturing partition the reverse side must not be 

 more than one grade lower. For that reason B and better parti- 

 tion is worth at least two dollars more than flooring. 



"Why is grooved roofing worth more than shiplap at the mill?" 

 It is a better grade than shiplap'. It doesn't allow any splits ; it 

 doesn't allow any pith knots or worm holes. It is practically a 

 water-tight board, which a number 1 common board or shiplap is 

 not. Number 1 shiplap will admit pith knots or it will admit a split 

 equal in length to the width of the piece at any point in the piece. 

 It will admit seasoning checks that go through or show an opening 

 through, and grooved roofing will not. 



The Chairman : Are there any other questions you would like 

 to ask Mr. Jones, either on the density rule or any other feature of 

 the grading rules, or the inspection work of the Association, or any- 

 thing of that character? 



Mr. Austin : What percentage of shipment of a mill working 

 strictly long leaf or cutting strictly long leaf will comply with the 

 density rule? 



Mr. Jones: Well, that is a question that has never been fig- 

 ured out. 11-^t I know of; but just miking a rough estimate of it I 



