THE FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY 

 The wood working shop 



On the ground floor are the paper 

 and pulp mills, laboratories for timber 

 physics and timber testing, wood pres- 

 ervation, and wood distillation, and the 

 woodworking shop. The last is fully 

 equipped with saws, planers, and all re- 

 quired woodworking machinery. In 

 the rear of the building is a spur track 

 by which timber and other supplies can 

 be brought to the door on the car. 

 There is also a roomy storage shed, 

 and there are two large tanks for stor- 

 ing preservatives. 



On the second floor are the offices of 

 the assistant forester in charge of the 

 branch of products, William L. Hall ; 

 the director of the laboratory, McGarvey 

 Cline, and the assistant directors, H. S. 

 Bristol, and H. S. Weiss. There is a 

 large lecture room and there are offices 

 for the computing clerks, files and other 

 requirements of a highly organized 

 modern business. Also on this floor are 

 the chemical laboratories, drafting room 

 and' ]:)hotographic dark room. The 

 building is airy, well lighted, and at- 



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tractive — yet already the young enthu- 

 siasts of the service, who dream of 

 to-morrows while they work at the 

 tasks of to-day, are talking of possible 

 enlargement in the near future. This 

 is a healthy sign. The work grows 

 constantly, not only in scope, but in 

 real value as well. 



THE r.R.ANCH OF PRODl'CTS 



'Idle branch of products undertakes 

 to conduct investigations and tlissemi- 

 nate information regarding the mechan- 

 ical, physical, and chemical character- 

 istics and properties of wood, utiliza- 

 tion of forest products, air seasoning 

 and artificial drying of wood, agencies 

 destructive to wood, wood preserva- 

 tion, wood distillation, production of 

 naval stores, pulp and paper and other 

 chemical industries using forest prod- 

 ucts, chemical analyses of forest prod- 

 ucts and materials used in their treat- 

 ment ; statistics of ])n)(luction, consump- 

 tion and prices of forest products, proc- 



