Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1920 — Find Value of Various Woods. [ARTICLE]

Find Value of Various Woods.

Investigations by the agricultural department show that one standard cord of well-seasoned hickory, oak, beech, birch, hard maple, ash, elm, locust or cherry wood Is approximately equal to one ton of anthracite coal. A cord and a half of soft maple or two cords of cedar, poplar or bass wood are required to give the same amount of heat. One cord of wellseasoned mixed wood equals at least one ton of average grade bituminous coat