SELLINGLUMBER 109 



Mr. Jones : You will find the same proportion of pieces 

 having waste in No. 2 common fencing surfaced two sides and 

 center matched, as you would in No. 2 common flooring, because 

 it is manufactured and graded under identical operations, graded and 



by the same man that grades the flooring, and he doesn't make ^^ "If Grad " 

 any distinction between that and the flooring. It is just simply 

 the condition, or rather the quality of the stock that is run in the 

 fencing. 



Mr. Blake: The grading rules specify that 1x12 boards 

 shall be not less than \\y 2 inches wide. 



Mr. Jones : Yes. 



Mr. Blake: Suppose you received an order for 1x12 S 2 S, 

 and you dressed that three sides to 11^ inches; you would have 

 a rejection. 



Mr. Jones: You would. You didn't fill the contract at all. 

 It is not the intention that they meant to convey, that the entire 

 shipment might be llJ/2 inches. 



Mr. Blake : Don't you think such provisions as that should 

 be corrected, so as to allow no difference of opinion between 

 the fellow who is buying it and the fellow who is shipping it? 

 Each one is trying to do what is right. 



Mr. Jones : I know, but 



Mr. Blake: I will ask this, further: What would be the 

 difference in instructing the sawyers to cut those boards so that 

 after drying they would be 11^ inches? 



Mr. Jones : Well, there would not be any difference, so far 

 as that is concerned. But I was going on to say, that is there 

 to take care of the occasional miss-cut, or the board that has 

 undergone unusual shrinkage. There is no man that can fix a ^/yldthlf 

 saw so that it will run true all the time and cut every board the Bound to 

 same width. There is bound to be some variation in the width; Occur 

 and a piece that does not fall below 11^ inches, although it is 

 a slightly miss-cut board, is still admissible for 12 inches. 



Mr. Blake: Well, then, what would be admissible on an 

 order, dressed two sides, or dressed three sides? 



Mr. Jones: Three sides? What would be admissible? 11^. 

 In all 1-inch common stock which is ordered surfaced two sides, 

 one edge may be dressed to bring the width ^-inch scant of the 



