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firm of Hall, Kellogg S; Company, with 

 offices in the Otis Building, Chicago. The 

 firm is to deal in timberlands and forest 

 products, make forest surveys and to de- 

 velop timberland investments. Mr. Hall 

 was with the Forest Service for twenty 

 years. His first undertaking was the for- 

 mation and organization of a definite plan 

 for timber planting operations for the Gov- 

 ernment and assistance to private owners 

 who desired to grow timber. After putting 

 this work upon a sound and practical basis, 

 Mr. Hall was next asked to develop the 

 branch of Forest Production in the For- 

 est Service, witli which he was connected 

 for a long time and during which period 

 the present widely known researches and 

 investigations in timber testing, timber 

 treating, and pulp and paper making were 

 planned and culminated in the establish- 

 ment of the Forest Products Laboratory at 

 Madison, Wisconsin. For the past eight 

 years Mr. Hall's energy has been devoted to 

 the examination and recommendation for 

 purchase by the National Government of 

 1,700,000 acres of timber and cut-over land 

 in the White Mountains and Southern 

 Appalachians, during which time he has 

 gained an experience in timber examina- 

 tion, land classification, the handling of 

 complicated land titles and the blocking up 

 of holdings into suitable units for adminis- 

 tration that is of a particularly unique and 

 valuable character. During the war Mr. 

 Hall was assigned to a conspicuous part 

 in organization of the 20th Engineers, and 

 at the close was a major in training for 

 overseas service. Recently he has been 

 making a survey of the wood-using in- 

 dustries of the Middle West for the pur- 

 pose of determining their supply of raw 

 material and the development of plans for 

 a national forest policy, including the neces- 

 sary part to be played therein by the 

 Government, the timberland owners and 

 the Public. 



R. S. Kellogg, the other principal mem- 

 ber of the firm, also began his professional 

 and business career in the Forest Service, 

 entering that organization in 1901 and con- 

 tinuing until 1910. During this period he 

 liad many important assignments covering 

 all parts of the United States and Alaska. 

 He made numerous forestry investigations 

 in various parts of the country and brought 

 out a large number of important publica- 

 tions. He had an exceedingly important 

 part in the early conservation movement 

 which focused the attention of the whole 

 country upon the necessity of conserving 

 supplies of timber and other natural re- 

 sources. To Mr. Kellogg's efforts are due 

 the plan of collecting annual statistics of 

 forest products. The work was originally 

 instituted by him and he wrote many of 

 the earlier reports published by the Forest 

 Service and the Bureau of the Census. 



In 1910 Mr. Kellogg left a promising 

 career in the public service to become Sec- 

 retary of the Northern Hemlock and Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' .'dissociation. Later 



he became Secretary of the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association, and in 

 1918, Secretary-Treasurer of the News- 

 print Service Bureau, with offices in New 

 York. He will retain this position, his as- 

 sociation with the new firm being in the 

 capacity of stockholder and director. 



VERSATILITY OF WOOD 

 A PAIR of green silken sox woven from 

 fine fibers made from spruce and a 

 coil of stout binder twine spun from twist- 

 ed strands of fir are two of the typical 

 products of western woods displayed on 

 a panel just received in the office of the 

 West Coast Lumbermen's Association in 

 Seattle from the Forest Products labora- 

 tory at Madison, Wisconsin. 



The exhibit has been arranged as a 

 demonstration of the practical results ob- 

 tained through the research work at the 

 Madison laboratory and merely goes to 

 illustrate once more and to emphasize that 

 sawn and finished lumber is the crudest 

 commercial product of the trees. 



Among the other interesting specimen 

 products included in the exhibit are: furni- 

 ture reed and braid, used in making 

 "wicker" furniture; paper rug yarn, ex- 

 tensively used in making bath-room mats 

 and small household rugs ; linoleum, with 

 attractive patterns, made from wood flour 

 and linseed oil ; paper bagging that can be 

 used in place of the jute bags now com- 

 monly employed in sacking grain ; paper 

 absorbent, which was quite generally used 

 during the war as a successful substitute 

 for absorbent cotton ; artificial lath, pro- 

 duced from a mixture of wood flour and 

 used as a substitute for wood lath ; basket 

 braid, made from twisted strands of paper; 

 insulating rfds and tubes, binder twine, 

 paper cloth, glue tissue wrapping twine, 

 paper webbing and rope, all produced from 

 paper which in turn has been produced 

 from native wood. 



The basis for products such as phono 

 graph records, insulating tubes and arti 

 ficial lath is wood flour, which consists of 

 spruce wood chemically treated and 

 ground into a fine powder. The versa- 

 tility of this flour is demonstrated by the 

 fact that it is used in the peaceful art of 

 making toys as well as in the more violent 

 purpose of manufacturing dynamite. A 

 case containing gunpowder made from 

 wood flour is included in the exhibit. 



Manufacture of clothing from artificial 

 silk, produced from spruce, presents won- 

 derful possibilities. The pair of sox on 

 display is a mere example. A strip of 

 silken cloth, tied with a silken cord — all 

 made from spruce — show what can be done 

 in this direction. 



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ODOR AND TASTE OF WOOD 



ll/TOST of our native woods are without 

 pronounced odor or taste, but woods 

 of the laurel family, of which sassafras and 

 California laurel or myrtle are representa- 

 tives, have a distinct spicy odor and taste. 



Port Orford cedar of the Pacific coast has 



a very spicy, resinous odor; other cedars 

 have a more aromatic odor, especially the 

 pencil cedar or juniper. Hemlock has a 

 slightly sour odor while cypress is some- 

 what rancid. Except in cedars and juni- 

 pers these odors are scarcely strong 

 enough to taint food unless it is brought 

 into direct contact with the wood as in 

 butter tubs or boxes. For wooden pie 

 plates, butter dishes, bowls, buckets, candy 

 pails, kegs and barrels, only woods are 

 used which are without taste. 



FOREST FIRE AIR PATROL 



■pjISTRICT s, of the United States Forest 

 Service, reported the following interest- 

 ing data on the forest fire patrol, via the 

 air, for the two months of July and 

 .August : 745 flights. 92,605 miles of flight, 

 8 planes daily in service, 16.000.000 acres 

 national forest land covered twice daily, 

 5,000,000 acres private timber covered twice 

 daily, 6 forced landings, i fatality. 



In addition to the above terse figures, the 

 District Forester reports the system as 85 

 per cent efficient in discovery of fires, but 

 amends this by stating that it will shortly 

 be practically 100 per cent efficient. Equip- 

 ping the planes with wireless telephones 

 will largely assist in reaching this state of 

 perfection. 



