Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
The Preservation Of Timber.
Popular Science Monthly.

Popular Science Monthly
The cheapest operation to protect our
woods, and quite sufficient for many pur-
poses, is to season or thoroughly dry the
timber, reducing the contained moisture
from to II per cent of the weight of
the wood; and when in this condition,
with a circulation of air around it, to pre-
vent the collection and absorption of
moisture, the wood will last indefinitely,
as the fungi can not grow in such sur
roundings. Everyone is more or less
familiar with the soundness of timber in
the upper parts of buildings, while in the
lower parts near the foundations it is
often decayed on account of moisture.
In many situations, however, where
the timber must be used, the conditions
of growth of the fungi are present, and
it will decay; some species can be used
which resist the attacks of the fungi for a
long period, but the final result is decay
unless the growth of the fungi, which
two things: 1. 1t must keep the fibers
dry, preventing the absorption of mois-
ture. 2. If the wood must be in
a damp place and kept moist, anti
septic must be present sufficient to pre-
vent the growth of any of the various kinds
of, destructive fungi. Timber entirely
submerged does not come under these
considerations. To use the first process
successfully means more than thin coat
of paint or tar on seasoned wood when
exposed to continued moisture. It must
be some substance which penetrates the
tissues of the wood sufficiently far, in
case the exterior surface is broken, to
prevent any absorption of moisture.
Wood impregnated with the heavy tar or
the lighter oils are protected more from
the fact of prevention of access of damp
ness to the fibers than by the contain
ed antiseptics, unless in the exception
Of great percentage of creosOte. In
the second method the moisture is per-
mitted to come in contact with the fibers
of the wood, and reliance depends upon
the antiseptic. In this case, the entire
wood should be saturated to give the
greatest measure of success, not merely
an exterior protection of a half-inch or
so in depth, the latter fact, as before ex-
planned, being the cause of many of the
failures which have taken place. The
antiseptic treatment to succeed, must
destroy all the germs which have found
lodgment in the timber, and also those
which may come from the exterior.
Encouragement for the Feeble
So long as the failing embers of vitality are
capable of being re-kindled into warm and
genial glow, just so long there is hope for the
weak and emaciated invalid. Let him not there
fore, despond but derive encouragement from
this and from the further fact that there is re-
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powers of a broken down system Yes thanks
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ach Bitters is daily reviving strength in the
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blood fortified, and Sustenance afforded to each
DEMONSTRATING organ by the Btters, which is in
offensive even to the feminine palate, vegetable
in composition, and thoroughly safe. Hse it. and
regain vigorl
It is said that the expenses of the Bos-
ton public library are 100000 a wear.
against 100000 for the national library
of Paris, which is the largest collection
of books in the world.
After tae most exhaustive practical
tests in hospitals and elsewhere, the GOLD
medal and certificate of highest merit
were awarded to st. Jacobs Oil, as the
best pain-curing remedy, at the Caleutta
International Exhibition.
So great is the demand for Swiss con-
densed milk that fresh milk is consider
ed by the inhabitants of Switzerland as
too valuable an article of diet for their
own use. So they quench their thirst
with the product of the vine and inebriety
prevails among them to a large extent
From DR.. Foote's Health Monthly.
Prof. Grote, Brooklyn Board of Health,
says Red Star Cough Cure is free from
opiates and highly efdcacious. Twenty
five cents.