SELLINGLUMBER 415 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



22. Firm red heart shall not be considered a defect in 

 any of the grades of Common Lumber. 



23. Defects in rough stock caused by improper manufac- 

 ture and drying will reduce grades, unless they can be removed 

 in dressing such stock to standard sizes. 



24. All stock, except Dimension, shall be inspected on the 

 face side to determine the grade. In stock surfaced one ,side 

 only, the dressed surface shall be considered the face side. 

 Stock rough or dressed two sides, or common boards center 

 matched, or shiplapped and S. 2 S., the best side shall be con- 

 sidered the face side, but the reverse side of all such stock 

 should not be more than one grade lower. 



25. Imperfect manufacture in dressed stock, such as torn 

 grain, loosened grain, slight skips in dressing, wane, broken 

 knots, mismatched, insufficient tongue or groove on Flooring, 

 Ceiling, Drop Siding, etc., shall be considered defects, and will 

 reduce the grade according as they are slight or serious in the 

 effects on the use of the stock. 



26. Pieces of Flooring, Drop Siding or Partition, with 3/16 

 of an inch or more of tongue, and pieces of Ceiling with J/ 

 of an inch or more of tongue, and pieces of Shiplap with 5/16 

 inch of lap will be admitted in any grade. 



Pieces of Flooring, Drop Siding, Ceiling or Partition hav- 

 ing not less than 1/16 of an inch tongue, will be admitted in 

 No. 2 Common. 



Pieces of Shiplap having less than 5/16 of an inch and not 

 less than l /% of an inch lap shall be admitted in No. 2 Common. 



One sixteenth of an inch lap admitted in No. 3 Common 

 Shiplap. 



27. In all grades of D and Better Flooring, and No. 1 Com- 

 mon and Better Ceiling, Drop Siding, etc., wane on the reverse 

 side, equivalent to one-third the width and one-sixth the length 

 of the piece, provided the wane does not extend into the tongue 

 or groove, is admissible. 



28. The grade of all regular stock shall be determined by 

 the number, character, position and location of the defects 

 visible in any piece. The enumerated defects herein described 

 admissible in any grade are intended to be descriptive of the 

 coarsest pieces such grades may contain. 



