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TIMBER seasoning has made very considerable progress hi many countries of the world since the Great War. It was during that War that a great deal of research work hi seasoning by means of kiln-drying was undertaken, more especially perhaps in Great Britain and in India. Owing to the enormous consumption of timber upon the War fronts all seasoned material was absorbed in a comparatively short space of time; and since then it is not an overstatement to say that good seasoned material of high quality is very difficult to obtain for many species of timbers. In this new departure of utilizing the kiln for drying timbers, Australia has not been behind other parts of the Empire. In 1933 the Division of Forest Products of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research published as a pamphlet Part 1 of "A Guide to the Seasoning of Australian Timbers", in which it was pointed out that timbers of different species frequently differ so widely in physical properties that it is impossible to prescribe a general set of conditions for air-drying or kiln-drying for all timbers, or even for all sizes of one timber. part 2 of this Guide has been recently issued (Div. of For. Products, Pamphlet No. 68, TechmcaLPaper, No. 22. Melbourne, 1937) written by W. L. Greenhai and A. J. Thomas. The work of determining suitable kiln schedules for various species and sizes of timber is being carried out, in laboratory kilns, supplemented by information operated by the Queensland forest service. Based on the results of the work carried out since the publication of Part 1, seasoning notes and suggested schedules for twenty-two additional species are given in the present pamphlet.
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Timber Seasoning in Australia. Nature 141, 71–72 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141071d0
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