** Reply to note from p.comino@q... Fri, 08 Aug 1997 16:59:39 +1000 (EST)

>   
> Hang on a tick - this stuff is saturated with dried bloo....  glue, fat,
> bone, and all sorts of "other" matter.   All the previous data was for
> "clean" wood - better ask the question again.  
>   

Not if it was treated right.  It should have been scraped down every night to
remove all that gunk.  I packaged meat in a pet shop when I was in high school
(was that the 18th or 19th century?) and I got to do the scraping.  Yeah,
every night. 

Ernie
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