Tips for Buying Firewood
The Maryland Department of Agriculture offers advice for getting what you paid for and how to avoid wood with damaging insects.
As colder weather approaches and you prepare to build a fire to keep warm, the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) offers some tips for buying firewood. The department, which is headquartered in Annapolis, reminds residents that Maryland regulations require that firewood only be sold by the cord (or fractional parts of a cord). That means that any other unit of measurement for wood—such as truckload, rack, face cord, or pile—is illegal, according to the MDA. The MDA offers these other tips in a press release: A cord of wood is 128 cubic feet, typically stacked four feet wide, by eight feet long, by four feet high, with no internal gaps. (Cubic feet is calculated by multiplying the width of the stack by its height and length.) When …
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