04 BULLETIN 1136, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
7. Number of hours in the kiln. . 
8. Name of the manufacturer of the stock to be dried. 
9. Date of the arrival of the stock at the yard. 
10. Name and number of the railroad car that carried the steck to the yard. 
11. Species of wood. 
12. Locality in which the wood was grown. 
13. Moisture content of the stock on its arrival at the yard. 
14. Appearance of the stock as to seasoning defects. 
15. Time of air seasoning when the stock enters the kiln. 
16. All important dimensions of the stock, including the range in length. 
17. Number of board feet on each truck. 
18. Size of the stickers and species of wood used for fie 
19. Number of tiers of stickers to the truck. 
20. Use for which the stock is intended. 
21. Final moisture content desired. 
22. Original weight, final weight, and moisture content of each preliminary 
moisture section cut from a kiln sample. 
23. Original weight, original moisture content, and calculated dry weight of 
each kiln sample. 
24. Running record of the current weight and the calculated moisture con- 
tent of each kiln sample. 
25. Original weight, final weight, and moisture content of each moisture sec- 
tion cut from a kiln sample at the end of the run. 
26. Running record of the kiln temperature, together with the hour at which 
each reading was taken. (Two or more readings a day are desirable.) 
27. Running record of the kiln humidity, corresponding exactly to the tem- 
perature record. 
28. Identification number of each thermometer used in the run and the cor- 
rection to be applied to its readings. 
29. Running record of the appearance of the stock, of stress determinations, 
and of high-humidity treatment. 
30. Final moisture content of the stock. 
31. Unusual conditions of any kind, general or specific. 
The charts from the recorders, with run number, dates, and cor- 
rections plainly indicated on each, should be filed with each run re- 
port, and final stress sections can frequently be kept to advantage, 
at least until the stock has been worked up. To make the marking 
of kiln samples simpler, each one may be given the run number and 
an additional individual serial number. Thus, if there are four 
samples in run 32, they may be numbered 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, and 3244, 
respectively. Moisture sections cut from the sample should bear the 
sample number and also an individual identifying number or letter. 
The two sections first cut from 32-1 may be marked 32-1A and 
82-1B, and the final section 32-1C, 
ESSENTIAL APPARATUS 
In order to work effectively, every operator should have certain 
apparatus and a suitable workroom in which to keep and to use it. 
The following lst represents the minimum equipment compatible 
with efficient work: 
One standard-grade etched-stem glass chemical thermometer, 30° to 220° F., 
graduated in degrees. 
Six wet and dry bulb hygrometers, 60° to 220° F., graduated every second 
degree, with spare wicks. 
One balance or trip scale for weighing moisture sections; see page — for a 
discussion of the various balances available for this purpose. 
One platform scale or balance for kiln samples, capacity 100 pounds, sensi- 
tive to one one-hundredth pound, the beam graduated to one one-hundredth 
pound, or— 
