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Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:01:14 -0500
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Re: budget boxes
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Christine Gray wrote:

> I always wonder if its use started only as a
> misunderstanding - Langstroth was American and I understand 'cedar' can mean
> a softwood in US and not necessarily Western Red.  So did someone ask
> sometime what the best wood for hives was and get an answer 'cedar' and
> misunderstand.....

Could be white cedar, since it is not aromatic and is dimensionally
stable. It addition, it weathers well. I use it for fence posts.

Made a cedar strip canoe from it. Nice wood to work.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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