INDIAN FOREST RECORDS 
Vo!. iX. 
1922 
Part V. 
Further Experiments in the Air-Seasoning of Indian 
Timbers and General Recommendations 
as to Seasoning Methods 
BY 
C. V. SWEET, B.S., M.E. 
CHAPTER I. 
. Previous Work in the Seasoning of Indian Timbers. 
The investigation into approved methods of natural seasoning was 
started by the Forest Economist in 1914, and the results of the first 
phase of the work were published in Indian Forest Records T’olunic 
VII, Part I. Preliminary Note on the Seasoning of some Indian Tim- 
bers by Natural Methods, R. S. Pearson. Up to the time the in- 
vestigation was started little attention had been given to the subject 
of controlling the seasoning except by following more or less blindl 3 ' 
the time-honoured methods of the countrj’. As to the actual effec- 
tiveness of the various methods used in different regions and by vari- 
ous firms, but little was known. There was not even a standard, 
generally-approved practice in common use, or a definite consensus 
■of opinion as to what was correct or incorrect so that it was necoa- 
fiary to start with fundamentals and gather data concerning all of tlie 
methods in use by forest officers, timber firms, and sawmill managers. 
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