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crete block, 75% infested within 3-5 years; 

 Eastern Shore, Del-Mar-Va. Peninsula, crawl- 

 space less susceptible, 2% slab-on-ground 

 type, 18 



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Warfarin, 51 



Washington (State), 43, 63 



Washington, D.C., 37, 62 



Wasp societies, 6 



Water, 7; accumulation of, 13; building, effect of 

 on water content of clay and dry soils, 14, 46; 

 loss of, 4, 12, 30; suspensions, 15; transporta- 

 tion in nest, 34 



Water gas tar, 55 



Wax disrupted, 12 



Weight, loss of, 12; protozoa, percent of termite, 

 22 



Weight volume more accurate soil toxicant dos- 

 ages, 44 



West Indies, 31, 49, 67 



West Virginia, 17, 64; Monongalia County, 25, 67 



Whipscorpion, whipless, 37 



White ants. See Termites 



Wing shedding, 32 



Winged. See Alate 



Wire, resistant insulation, 11, 26 



Wisconsin, 32, 45, 50, 54, 55, 56, 63, 65, 66, 67; 

 Douglas County, 25; Madison, 54, 55, 56; 

 Milwaukee, 32, 66; Sheboygan, compulsory 

 control, 32, 66; Superior, 25 



Wolman salts, 54, 57; Minolith, 54, 57; Tanalith, 

 53 



Wood(s), 15, 18, 19, 34; black dyed preferred by 

 termites, 7, 35; burning, 13; decayed, 35; 

 fallen, 19; in contact with ground, 56; list 

 world, 40; live woodeater, 20; products, 18; 

 resistant to termites, 8, 10, 13-16, 18, 40; sound 

 attacked, 29; pest of, 18; termites don't eat, 39; 

 pest of, 18; water-soaked, 29 



Wood-boring insects, control by radiation, 39; re- 

 sembling termites, 48 



Wooden articles, 4; structures, 19 



Wood Handbook, U.S.D.A., 54 



Wood preservation, 11, 12, 13, 14, 31, 52, 53-59; 

 availability treated lumber, 53; board: hard- 

 board, 53; particle, 56; Building Research Ad- 

 visory Board, reports, 56; chemical basis, 58; 

 concentrations, 57; conservation wood, 57; cost, 

 54, 56; dip-diffusion, 54; double diffusion 

 process, 55; FHA Minimum Property Stand- 

 ards, treated lumber alternate control, 53, 56; 

 home construction, 57, 58; impregnation, 53, 

 54, 55, 56; length life, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58; 

 licensed, should be, 31; list companies, 53; loca- 

 tion plants, 53; lumber, 53, 54, 56, 57; mainte- 

 nance properties, 53; methods application, 57, 

 58; penetration, 54; piles, 53; plastics, 53, 54; 

 plywood, 53, 57, 58; poles, 57; pressure im- 

 pregnation process, 53, 54, 57; production by 

 industry, 53, 57; prolonging life buildings, 53, 

 56; protection homes, 44, 56 (outlive mortgage, 

 53); recommendations, 57, 58; retention, 55, 

 57; sills, pressure treated, 54, 58; simple cheap 

 methods, 53; specifications, 58; statistics, 53, 57; 



study, accelerated, 57; substructure, pressure 

 preserved lumber, 54; superficial methods: 

 brushing, 54, 56; dipping, 53, 54, 57, 58; 

 spraying, 53; surface treatments, 53, 54; tests: 

 Australia, 53, 54, 56; Barro Colorado Island, 

 56; Canal Zone, Panama, 56; Florida, 54, 55, 

 56; International Termite Exposure, 55, 58: 

 Louisiana, 54, 55, 56; Mississippi; 53, 54, 55, 

 56; Puerto Rico, 58; Wisconsin, Madison, 54; 

 55, 56; textiles, 56, 58; ties, cross, 57; timber, 

 53, 56, 57, 58; toxicity chemicals, 52; water- 

 borne preservatives, 53, 55, 57; wood pressure- 

 treated in home, mechanical control, 57; wood 

 products, volume, 57, 58; wood waste, resin 

 bonded, 57 



Wood, preservatives, 15, 53-59; aldrin, 53; ar- 

 senic pentoxide, 53 (white, 54); arsenious 

 oxide, 56; blue camphor oil, 58; Boliden salt, 

 53, 555 borax-boric acid, 55; boric acid, 55, 56; 

 camphor oil, 58; Celcure, 53; Chemonite, 53, 

 54; chlordane, 53; chlorinated naphthalene, 55, 

 56; chromated zinc chloride, 54, 56 (copper- 

 ized, 57); coal tar, 53; coal tar creosote, 53, 54, 

 55, 56; comparison, 54, 55, 56; copper com- 

 ponent desirable, 57; copper naphthenate, 55, 

 57 (in petroleum oil, 54; sulfate-sodium ar- 

 senate, 55), crankcase oil, 55; creosote, 53, 57 

 (coal tar, 53); solutions, 53); creosote and coal 

 tar, 53, 57; crankcase oil, 55; pentachoro- 

 phenol, 53, 57; petroleum oils, 53, 57); cre- 

 wood, 53; dieldrin, 53; Ferox process, 56; fire 

 retardants, 53, 54, 55 (history, 56, 57); fluoro- 

 borate-chromium-arsenic mixture, 54; fuel oil, 

 No. 2, 55; liquid, 53, 57; oil solvent, 55, 56, 

 57; oleaginous antiseptics, 57; organic solvents, 

 54; Osmosalts, 53, 55, 57; Osmose, 55; penta- 

 chlorophenol, 53, 54, 55; pentachlorophenol 

 and crankcase oil, 56, 57 (and petroleum oils, 

 55); percentages, low, 56; petroleum oil, 55; 

 phenols, 56; phenyl mercury, oleate, 55 (in 

 naphtha, 55); preservatives, other, 55; propolis 

 (bee glue), 58; sodium arsenate, 55; sodium 

 arsenite, 53, 54; sodium pentaborate, 53, sodium 

 pentachlorophenate, 56; study, accelerated, 

 57; Tanalith U, 53, 56, 57, 58; tests posts, 40, 

 53, 54, 55 (stakes, 53, 54, 55, 56); tetrachloro- 

 phenol and crankcase oil 55; toxicity, 52; types, 

 54; vinegar, 56; water-borne, 53, 55, 57; water 

 gas tar, 55; Wolman salts, 53, 57; Woodtreat- 

 T.C., 11, 56; Wyoming residual petroleum 

 oil, 55; zinc chloride, 53, 56; zinc chloride and 

 arsenic pentoxide, 53; zinc meta arsenite, 55, 

 57; zinc naphthenate, 55 



Woodtreat-T.C, 11, 13, 56 



Woodworm, 5 



Worker, 16; Anoplotermes, 16; chaetotaxy, 33; 

 length life, 8; major and minor, 33; morphol- 

 ogy, 32, 33; nest construction, coordination 

 work, 36; pseudo worker, 8; sexualized: in 

 Reticulitermes, 8; in Termitidae, 7; stimulation 

 of, 3 



World, 8, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 25, 40, 45, 51, 

 70-71, amber deposits, list, 28; control, 13, 15, 

 16; crops, 12, 13, 45; damage, 15, 16, 18, 19, 

 21; different types termites, 12; distribution, 



