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in other words, as many knot holes in one place as could be cut 

 out with 16 inches of waste; but if they couldn't cut it without 

 more than sixteen inches of waste, then each knot hole would be 

 considered a cut. 



Mr. Houston: That applies to No. 2 flooring or No. 2 

 fencing? 



Mr. Jones: That applies to No. 2 common flooring; and No. 

 2 common fencing, surfaced two sides and center matched is 

 graded the same as flooring. No. 2 common fencing surfaced 

 two sides or rough, as the case might be, is not graded with a 

 view to any waste whatever. 



Mr. Houston: How many cuts could you have in a piece 

 of No. 3 fencing dressed and matched where you have got 3/4 

 Fencing ^ tne l en th cut as good as No. 2 common; how many pieces 



must that 3/4 be in ? 



Mr. Jones: It may be in three or four pieces; just so it will 

 cut 75 per cent as sound as No. 2 common. 



Mr. Houston: Then you would admit more pieces in the 

 residue of No. 3 fencing? 



Mr. Jones : Yes, I would allow more pieces. It is a lower 

 grade lumber. 



Mr. Van Landingharn : On this No. 2 center matched again, 

 there seems to be a good deal of difference of opinion between 

 the inspectors and the railroad committee. I have had consider- 

 able correspondence with the railroad committee, and one of 

 them tells me he was instrumental in drawing up that rule in 

 the first place, and he tells me that rule provided for only taking 

 care of an occasional piece. Now, a while ago you said you might 

 allow 25 per cent waste? 



Mr. Jones : Yes. There is no difference whatever in the 

 inspection on 6-inch center matched and No. 2 common flooring. 

 It only provides for the occasional piece in fencing, and it would 

 only provide for the occasional piece in flooring. Now, I don't 

 know I wasn't present when that rule was inserted; I knew 

 nothing about it until it was in there; and if that was the idea 

 they meant to convey, to take care of the occasional piece, it 

 would be necessary to add in that rule the per cent of pieces 

 that would be allowed, admitting of waste. 



Mr. Van Landingharn : How can a man tell what he is going 

 to get? 



