436 MR ANGUS R. FULTON ON EXPERIMENTS TO SHOW 
This goes to show that a beam is rather stronger when laid with the medullary rays 
in a vertical plane and its annual rings as nearly as possible horizontal. This is in 
keeping with the results arrived at in ordinary shear, which showed that the timber 
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was better able to resist tangential shear than horizontal; but the difference, especially 
in the case of Ash, is not a very important one. 
The values of the tensile and compressive stresses, as given in the above tables, 
