The Cultivator, 1847, Vol. 4

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Excerpt from The Cultivator, 1847, Vol. 4: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture and to Domestic and Rural EconomyFunk - Every farmer knows that a green stick of wood is much heavier than a seasoned one. If a stick of beech or maple, or of any other wood commonly used as fuel. Be weighed when first cut, and again when thoroughly seasoned, it will he found to have lost about one third of its weight, which is, of course, the water in the wood, evaporated by drying. How much water is there. Then, in a single cord of wood? There are 128 cubic feet deducting two-fifths for the interstices between the sticks. Leaves 77 solid feet of wood. One third, or 26 cubic feet of this is water, which is equal to more than six barrels, the quantity in every cord of green wood. The teamster, then, who draws in one winter, a hundred cords of wood to market, loads, draws, and unloads, more than 600 barrels of water, which he need not have done had the wood been cut a year sooner and properly seasoned. How much would he charge for drawing those 600 barrels, in water, separately?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.