THE FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY 

 Timber Physics. Dead load testing machine 



principle through which one can continue to 

 secure to himself any product at less than 

 it costs to produce that product. 



President Van Hise spoke on con- 

 servation and on the relation of his 

 great university to this new project 

 with the force and cogency which his 

 scientific knowledge and his profound 

 convictions give to all his utterances on 

 these subjects. 



The speaking was well closed by Mr. 

 Bannister, who aptly represented an in- 

 dustry that has already learned the 

 practical business value of the work of 

 the forest products branch, whose 

 tests made possible the reclassification 

 of hickory and the use of the formerly 

 discarded red hickory. Mr. Bannister 

 referred to this in his address. 



That there was general interest in 

 the new laboratory and great satisfac- 

 tion with it on the part of the visitors 

 no one who was present could doubt. 

 As one cooperage man was heard to 

 say to another after watching a dem- 



onstration of the structure of dif- 

 ferent varieties of oak : "This shows 

 us the reason for things we have simply 

 run against in our experience without 

 understanding them." This more per- 

 fect knowledge is certainly worth some-, 

 thing. 



THE PLANT 



The laboratory is a substantial, at- 

 tractive two-story brick building, i8o 

 feet long and eighty feet wide. It was 

 erected, and will be supplied with 

 water, light, heat, and power by the 

 state of Wisconsin. The United States, 

 through the Forest Service, provides 

 the equipment and the stafif and all 

 other maintenance. As a further evi- 

 dence of the fine spirit of cooperation 

 which is embodied here, it may be noted 

 that the railroads are furnishing free 

 carriage for the supplies of the labora- 

 tory, and that lumber companies and 

 associations are giving material of great 

 value for experimental purposes. 



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