﻿Bui. 1136, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate VIII. 



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Drying Defects. 



The upper board is a piece of redwood showing collapse; before drying the board was of uniform 

 thickness. The piece of Douglas fir plank in the center shows honeycomb. The lower board 

 is a resawed piece of badly honeycombed slash-sawed oak, showing the appearance of honeycomb 

 on the tangential faces. 



