Show SUGAR A TIMBER PRESERVER prolonged experiments show value of the process among now new uses to which sugar has recently been put Is in the preservation of 0 timber much interest has been aroused by tho the announcement as the result of a prolonged series of experiments ot of a method of 0 so treat ing ine timber as to secure even from rom soft wood a largely increased toughness and hardness the treatment to which the timber Is subjected Is roughly speaking that of saturation at boiling point with a solution of sugar the water being afterward evaporated at a high temperature the result Is to leave the pores and interstices of 0 the wood filled in with solid matter and the timber vulcanized preserved and seasoned the nature of 0 moderately soft wood it Is claimed Is in this way changed to a tough and hard substance without brittleness and also without any ten dency to split or crack |