290 TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES. [chap. 
Table CLVI.—Pitch Pine (American). 
Transverse Experiments. —4 th Example. 
(Butt to top, inner part of the tree.) 
Number 
of the 
specimen. 
Deflections. 
Total 
weight 
required 
to break 
each 
piece. 
Specific 
gravity. 
Weight 
reduced 
to 
specific 
gravity 
600. 
Weight 
required 
to break 
1 square 
inch. 
With the 
apparatus 
weighing 
390 lbs. 
After the 
weight 
was 
removed. 
At. . 
the crisis 
of 
breaking. 
Inches. 
Inch. 
Inches. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
19 
I-25 
•OO 
4-50 
760 
583 
782 
190 'OO 
20 
I-50 
•15 
5‘°o 
778 
55 ° 
849 
I 94 ' 5 ° 
21 
1-25 
•OO 
375 
752 
S 3 1 
850 
i88 - oo 
22 
1-50 
•25 
475 
705 
505 
837 
176-25 
23 
1-50 
•25 
475 
695 
5 oi 
832 
17375 
24 
1-50 
•IO 
4'50 
710 
498 
855 
177-50 
Total . 
8-50 
75 
27-25 
44OO 
3168 
5005 
1100-00 
Average 
I'416 
•125 
4 ’ 54 1 
733 ’33 
528 
834 
183-33 
Remarks.— Specimens all broke with fracture of a few inches in length. 
E = 701530. S = 1925. 
Table CLVII.—Pitch Pine (American). 
Transverse Experiments. —5 th Example. 
(Butt to top, outer part of the tree.) 
Number 
of the 
specimen. 
Deflections. 
Total 
weight 
required 
to break 
each 
piece. 
Specific 
gravity. 
Weight 
reduced 
to 
specific 
gravity 
600. 
Weight 
required 
to break 
1 square 
inch. 
With the 
apparatus 
weighing 
390 lbs. 
After the 
weight 
was 
removed. 
At 
the crisis 
of 
breaking. 
Inches. 
Inch. 
Inches. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
25 
1-50 
‘IO 
4-75 
805 
601 
803 
201-25 
26 
1-25 
•15 
5-00 
778 
572 
8l6 
I 94 TO 
27 
1-25 
•05 
4-25 
742 
533 
835 
185TO 
28 
1-50 
•15 
4 - 00 
725 
530 
821 
l8l-25 
29 
1-50 
•05 
4 ‘ 0 O 
739 
528, 
839 
I 84-75 
30 
1-50 
‘OO 
3‘75 
741 
518 
858 
I 85-25 
Total . 
8-50 
•50 
2575 
4530 
3282 
4972 
1132-50 
Average 
1-416 
•083 
4-291 
755 
547 
829 
188-75 
Remarks. —Specimens all broke with fracture of a few inches in length. 
E — 677270. S = 1982. 
