Bui. 1298, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
PLATE XII 
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Fi<;. 1.— Base of a pile of Canadian hydraulic-pressed ground-wood pulp worthless from decay 
after three years' storage on an open platform. The pile was originally L'O feet high and 
contained 7,500 tons. More than $10,000 worth of this pulp was an absolute loss 
Fig. 2.— Lai> taken from near the base of the pile shown in fig. 1, showing brown strand-like 
mycelium of a fungus 
Fig. 3.— Several laps of ground-wood pulp deteriorated by wood-destroying fungi during a 
six months' storage period in a mill basement 
