Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on the Condition of Treated Timbers Laid in Texas, February, 1902
The tests were made on railroad ties because wood in this form is exposed to decay-producing in?uence at all times, since the position of a tie in the ground, partially surrounded by soil, prevents the evaporation of water and correspondingly promotes the development of the destructive fungi, and because Salts or tar-oil products are apt to escape more rapidly from a tie than from any other form Of wood.
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