The important thing to remember in home drying rough wood is keep it slow.
The slower the drying the less checking and fibre seperation.
If the wood is to be used for framing, use it green and quick or it will
walk away on you. Old timers up here in central ontario's logging country
would stack and sticker hardwood in barn lofts and cover it with sawdust to
control drying. Quick dries destroy wood.

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Or, weight it down with cement blocks over the stickers.

Other factors of importance:

1. cover the stack, like with tarp, over the top, and extending off the
sides, to shed water and minimize direct sunshine. Cover as little as
possible.

2. place stack with max southern exposure, and open to wind movement.
Temperature is very important to drying wood, having major impact on
equilibrium content of wood and drying rate.

HTH,
John