10 BULLETIN 552, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table II. — Average shrinkage of various species of wood — Continued. 
Species and locality. 
conifers — continued. 
Fir— Continued. 
Alpine, Grand County, Colo 
Balsam, Rusk County, Wis 
Grand- 
Missoula County, Mont 
Douglas County, Oreg 
Noble, Multnomah County. Oreg 
White, Madera County, Cal 
Hemlock: 
Sevier County, Tenn 
Marathon County, Wis 
Mountain, Missoula County, Mont 
Western— 
Chehalis County, Wash 
Grays Harbor and Buckley, Wash 
Larch, western: 
Missoula County, Mont 
Stevens County, Wash 
Pine: 
Jack, Barron County, Wis. 
Jeffrey. Plumas County, Cal 
Loblolly, Nassau County, Fla 
Lodgepole— 
Grand County, Colo 
Gallatin County, Mont 
Granite County, Mont 
Jefferson County, Mont 
Johnson County, Wyo 
Longleaf— 
Nassau County, Fla 
Bogalusa, La 
Lake Charles, La 
Tangipahoa Parish, La 
Hattiesburg, Miss 
Pitch, Sevier County, Tenn * 
Pond, Nassau County, Fla 
Norway, Shawano County, Wis 
Shortleaf— 
Malvern, Ark 
Bogalusa, La 
Slash, Nassau County, Fla 
Sugar, Madera County, Cal 
Table-mountain, Sevier County, Tenn 
Western white, Missoula County, Mont 
Western yellow— 
Coconino County, Ariz 
Madera County, Cal 
Douglas County, Colo 
Missoula County, Mont 
White, Shawano County, Wis 
Redwood: 
Humboldt COjUnty, Cal 
Mendocino County, Cal 
Spruce: 
Engelmann— 
San Miguel County, Colo 
Grand County, Colo 
Red- 
Coos County, N. H 
Sevier County, Tenn 
Sitka, Chehalis County, Wash 
White- 
Coos County, N. H 
Rusk County, Wis 
Tamarack, Shawano" County, Wis 
Yew, western, Snohomish County, Wash 
Shrinkage from a green to an 
oven-dry condition (per 
cent of dimensions when 
green). 
Volume. 
9.0 
10.8 
10.9 
0) 
13.6 
10.2 
11.6 
9.2 
10.8 
0) 
0) 
13.2 
0) 
10.4 
9.9 
12.6 
11.3 
11.9 
11.8 
12.0 
10.1 
12.2 
0) 
12.8 
12.8 
11.0 
11.7 
11.2 
11.5 
C 1 ) 
0) 
12.7 
8.4 
10.9 
11.5 
9.2 
11.5 
9.9 
9.3 
10.3 
10.5 
0) 
11.8 
11.2 
0) 
14.8 
13.6 
9.7 
Radial. 
2.5 
2.8 
3.5 
('; 
4.0 
3.4 
8.8 
2.3 
4.4 
0) 
0) 
0) 
3.4 
4.4 
5.5 
4.2 
4.6 
5.0 
5.0 
3.6 
5.1 
P) 
5.4 
6.0 
4.8 
4.8 
5.1 
5.9 
2.9 
3.4 
4.1 
4.1 
4.9 
3.8 
3.5 
2.2 
8 
3.0 
3.7 
0) 
3.8 
4.5 
(') 
3.7 
3.7 
4.0 
Tangen- 
tial. 
7.1 
(') 
6.8 
I 
9.1 
7.0 
7.8 
5.0 
7.1 
3 
0) 
8.1 
C 1 ) 
6.5 
6.7 
7.5 
7.1 
6.8 
6.5 
6.9 
5.9 
6.9 
7.8 
7.6 
7.5 
7.4 
7.1 
7.2 
7.5 
5.6 
6.8 
7.4 
6.4 
7.3 
5.8 
5.9 
5.9 
;:; 
6.2 
(') 
7.8 
7.4 
(') 
7.3 
7.4 
5.4 
No figures available. 
