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Hardwood log end treatment to prevent checking

• HF-ID: HF1939-01
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Sharp, Robert W.

• Associated Person:
  • Lutz, Russell J.
  • Lane, Phil

• Date: 1939
• Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), TS IV
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Experimental plot record (2 copies). 1 file folder.

• Keywords: lumbering, pathology
• Abstract:
  • The purpose of this experiment (Exp. 39-5) was to test the value of several compounds as preventatives of end checking and the economic feasibility of the method.

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 3, drawer 4
• Access: Active