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produced thoroughly air-seasoned wood at least in the dimensions 
specified. 
(1) 18 months in the log after felling, followed by conversion 
and stacking for 11 months. 
Eugenia Jamholana and Soymida febrifuga in 1" boards. 
(2) Conversion three months after felling, followed by stacking 
for 25 months. 
Eugenia Jamholana and Soymida febrifuga in 1" boards 
and the latter species in 2" boards at least. 
(3) Immei'sion in water for three months after conversion, fol- 
lowed by stacking for 22 months. 
Eugenia Jambolana and Soymida febrifuga in 1" and 2" 
boards. 
(4) Girdling for 14 — 18 months, followed by conversion and 
stacking for six months. 
Both of the above species in 1" boards. 
Soymida febrifuga will probably require one complete dry season 
after conversion, beginning during the latter part of the rainy season 
and ending at the beginning of the rains, for thorough seasoning of 1" 
boards. Eugenia Jambolana can probably be air-seasoned in 1" boards 
in from 5 — 6 months and up to in thickness in one complete dry 
season. During a year of normal atmospheric conditions the mois- 
ture content of thoroughly seasoned wood in this Division may be 
as high as 19 per cent, at the end of the rainy season. 
{viii) PoR.\HAT Division, Bihar and Orissa. 
Data are available from two species under test in this Division. 
However, due to the inconsistent and unexplainable results of the 
test of Boswellia serrata it is necessary to disregard this species in 
these calculations, and to deal only with the 18 determinations on 
Anogeissus acuminata. The tests were taken in May, 1921 when the 
humidity was about 6 per cent, below normal. In the case of Boswellia 
serrata 1" boards which had been openly stacked for 27 months tested 
from 6'9 per cent, to 24' 2 per cent. Such marked variation can be 
explained only by errors either in the determinations (which cannot 
be checked) or in taking readings from boards which had recently 
been rained upon. 
The moisture content ol 1" boards of Anogeissus acuminata, which 
had been converted from green logs* and stacked for a period of 30 
months, was 6' 5 per cent. 
Appendix I shows that each of the other methods of seasoning 
produced uniformly air-seasoned tiinber at least in 1" boards and in 
the case of green conversion up to 1\" in thickness. 
It is thought that Anogeissus acuminata when converted into 1" 
boards can be thoroughly air-seasoned in one complete dry season. 
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