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WITH the hearty co-operation of business firms, the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun has published a small pocket monograph entitled “Rules ffv for the Grading of Teak Squares”, prepared by L. N. Seaman, officer in charge, Timber Testing Station, and V. D. Limaye. In a preface, Mr. C. G. Trevor, Inspector General of Forests, states that the work was undertaken at the request of the Chief Conservator of Forests, Burma, and the Indian Railways, and the Burma forest officers were deputed to the saw mills of the five chief teak firms to observe and write down in tabular form all the defects in each teak square passed by the respective firms as belonging to different existing grades. The data so obtained were dispatched to Dehra Dun for analysis, and preliminary draft rules were drawn up by Mr. Seaman and his staff. These rules were discussed at a meeting held in Rangoon between the parties interested, and a trial was made of them. As a result of experience gained, the rules were re-written by Mr. Limaye (Mr. Seaman having left India on retirement) and are now published in the present handy form. The rules express, in so many words, the actual practice that is followed in the trade in the grading of teak squares. The rules have been accepted by the teak lessees of Burma and the timber adviser to the Railway Board and the Army. The rules are equally applicable to mill-sawn squares from Siam and other countries, and it is suggested that in future they will always be used for the buying and selling of teak squares.
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Grading of Teak Squares. Nature 138, 1007 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381007a0
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