Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Experiments with Durable Woods. [ARTICLE]

Experiments with Durable Woods.

In some tests made with small squares of various woods buried one inch in the ground the following results were obtained: birch and aspen decayed in three years; willow and horse chestnut in four years; maple and red beech in five years; elm, ash, ho nbearn, and Lombardy poplar in seven years; oak. Scotch fir, Weymouth pine, and silver flr decayed to a depth of half an inch in seven years; larch, juniper, and arbor vitae were uninjured at the expiration of the seven years. A woman should never ask her husband questions when be has an empty stomach.