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"The lumber manufacturers of the Northwest have failed to utilize these 

 by-products, not from clioice, but through necessity. It is the purpose of the 

 University of Idaho to co-operate with them and to carry on experiments to de- 

 vise methods of extracting in the niost economical manner the by-prcjducts from 

 the woods of this region, and also to discover uses and markets. This part of the 

 work will be put in the hands of an expert industrial chemist. In addition to 

 these lines of work, we intend to conduct high-grade courses in Forestry, with 

 laboratory courses in lumbering and secondary wood-using industries, and 

 also a strong course in logging engineering." 



The tentative plans for the Forestry building, upon which Dr. Shattuck 

 has been working for some time, call for a three-story building, with a one-story 

 annex for a practical saw-mill and wood-treatment laboratory. There will 

 also be a basement to contain the forestry-pathology department. 



The main portion of the building in the tentative plan is to cover 60x100 

 feet. On the first floor will be the library, a suite of offices, draughting rooms, 

 a museum, an auditorium and the wood distillation laboratory. 



The second floor will have lecture rooms, the wood-structure laboratory 

 and the herbarium and dendrological laboratory. On the third floor will prob- 

 ably be offices and research laboratories. 



In the saw-mill there will be one working floor, with a filing room above. 

 On the working floor will be the timber testing laboratory to test the strength 

 of timbers, the wood-products laboratory for making boxes, shooks, etc., the 

 wood working machinery, a band saw, the motor and boiler, trimmers and 

 grading tables, a re-saw and edger, a dry-kiln, the timber preservation labora- 

 tory, with vats for both open and pressure processes, and a small pulp mill. 

 The mill will be run by machinery. 



The building will be erected in the near future, as both the school authori- 

 ties and the lumber and timber men are eager to have the work begun as soon 

 as possible. 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 



Many of our readers frequently desire to secure some expert advice regarding various 

 features of forestry work, and do not know to whom to apply for the information. 



The Editor has accordingly decided to establish this column in which he will be glad to 

 publish such questions as may be sent to him, and give the answers, whenever the ques- 

 tions relate to any detail of the work which this Association is doing or such information as 

 it can give. 



The Editor requests that communications be written on one side of the paper only and 

 if possible, be typewritten. 



