Show water in wood it has commonly been estimated that preen green wood when cut down contains about 45 per cent of its weight in mols azre t re but in the foresta of central europe wood cut down in winter is 15 said to hold more than 40 per cent of water at the end of the following summer kept for several years in a dry place wool wood retains from 15 to 20 0 O per cent of water while that which has been thoroughly desiccated will when exposed to air under ordinary circumstances absorb 5 per cent of 0 water in the first three days and will continue to absorb it until it reaches from 14 to 10 per cent as aa a normal standard the amount fluctuating above and below this standard according to the state of the atmosphere it has been found that by exposing green wood to a temperature or of degrees F the loss ot of weight equaled 45 per cent and further on exposing in S small mall prisms of wood one half inch square and eight inches long cut out of billets that had been stored tor for two years to the action of superheated super heated steam for two hours their loss of weight was found f to be from 15 to 45 per cent according to the temperature of the tan ro |