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4. Stacking of firewood. 

 Fig. 59 explains at once how to stack firewood. In A the pieces 



Fig. 59. 



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Metknds nf stacking firewood, {After Gayer), i 



are in direct contact with the soil ; in B they rest on billets laid 

 crosswise on the ground ; while in C the whole stack is completely- 

 raised off the ground and there is free play of air underneath. In 

 every stack the pieces should be all of the same length and belong 

 to the same category of firewood. The height of a stack should be 

 uniform throughout, and should be such a figure that the height 

 multiplied by the breadth should give a constant whole number — if 

 possible, the number 10, — so that we have to measure only the length 

 of a stack to know at once its contents. As the wood is bound to 

 shrink considerably, causing the stack to settle down and its breadth 

 to diminish, it is usual to allow the product to slightly exceed the 



