A Preliminary Study of Borer Damage in Stacked White Pine Lumber
- HF-ID: HF1925-03
- Category: Research Files
- Creator:
- Date: 1925
- Location: New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Field notes, final draft and copies. 1 file folder.
- Keywords: pathology, insects
- Abstract:
- In late summer of 1925, a local wood-using concern suffered considerable loss from borers in white pine plank stored in two of its yards. In one lot fifty thousand board feet showed a loss of one-third at the end of the second summer. In another, also held over into the second year, a loss of fifteen per cent of the volume amounted to $818. This disregarded the depreciation in price due to lowered grade. The one company lost several thousand dollars during the season from this cause. In another yard where the plank had been stacked three seasons, local buyers refused to take twenty thousand feet at any price.
- In view of these facts a short study was made, attempting to find the cause and extent of this extraordinary outbreak, and, if possible, some means of controlling the insect responsible for the losses
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