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sale, and like all the association work handled 

 by this gentleman, it is manifestly fair to both 

 buyer and seller. In his report commending the 

 adoption of this form, the chairman says he be- 

 lieves the time has come when a firm stand 

 should be taken with those who habitually dis- 

 regard terms of sale, and by united action en- 

 deavor to bring about a better order of things 

 by insisting upon settlement in accordance with 

 the terms under which lumt>er is sold. 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation, through its office at 66 Broadway, 

 Kew York, is prepared to execute order forms 

 embracing the new terms of sale for its mem- 

 bers. 



Forestry in Missouri 



The University of Missouri at Columbia, mid- 

 way between St. Louis and Kansas City, has 

 added a school of forestry to its course, and 

 is prepared to take up the work in a scientific 

 way. 



Over half the state of Missouri, an area of 

 25,000.000 acres, is still covered with natural 

 forest growth. However, only a small portion 

 of this forested land is commercial timber. The 

 greater part consists of cutover land or brush 

 land and land from which the better kinds of 



H. C. DODGE. PRESIDENT AND SECRETAET, 



S. A. WOODS MACHINE COMPANY, 



BOSTON, MASS. 



trees have been heavil.v culled. Owing to re- 

 peated forest fires which destroy reproduction 

 and to the fact that no provision was made in 

 cutting the timber for re-stocking the land by 

 leaving seed trees of valuable species, much of 

 this land is in an unproductive condition or has 

 grown up to useless kinds of trees. 



It is estimated that the commercial forests 

 that still remain contain not more than 25.000,- 

 000,000 board feet of timber. Since the annual 

 cut from these forests in lumber, ties, etc., 

 amounts to over 1,000.000.000 board feet each 

 year, it will not be many years before Missouri 

 becomes dependent on other states for her sup- 

 plies of saw timber. Even at the present time 

 a large percentage of the lumber used is im- 

 ported from other regions. In 1911 the wood- 

 using Industries of the state bought 443,272,993 

 feet of lumber for further manufacture into 

 various commodities. Less than thirty-six per- 

 cent of this grew in Missouri. The total amount 

 paid for the lumber was §10.689,962, and more 

 than .$7,000,000 of it went outside of the state. 

 A small part was paid for woods which do not 

 grow in the United States, but most was spent 

 for species which might be produced in Mis- 

 souri, and which once grew there in commercial 

 quantities. 



The school of forestry proposes to take up 

 the work of growing wood in Missouri for Mis- 

 sourians. It is proposed to check the outgo 

 of $7,000,000 a .vear to other regions for lum- 

 ber which the state can produce. A long period 

 of time will be required to reach the desired 

 result, but that result will be held steadily in 

 view, and foresters will be trained to lead the 

 movement. The state owns 50,000 acres of 

 forest land which will be used as part of the 

 college equipment, and the students will be 

 amply provided with practical experience by the 

 time they graduate. 



New Hardwood House 



The Re.vnolds Brothers Lumber Company, it 

 is announced, has been organized at Franklin, 

 N. C, by G. E. and J. W. Reynolds, well-known 

 Tennessee lumbermen, who were formerly allied 

 with George C. Brown & Co., at Proctor, Ark. 



The Reynolds Brothers Lumber Company has 

 purchased the mills and equipment of George 

 C. Brown & Co. at FrankliU, N. C, together 

 with considerable lumber on their yards. The 

 equipment is being overhauled, and a new mill 

 installed to cut not only oak, ash and poplar 

 lumber, but oak and hickory dimension stock 

 as well. The mill will be stocked by logs pur- 

 chased in the surrounding territory along the 

 Talulah Falls railroad. The company has 

 already purchased enough timber to insure a 

 two years' run. The stock produced at the 

 principal plant will be supplemented with the 

 product from portable mills in the region, lum- 

 ber from which will be brought to Franklin 

 and yarded. 



The Messrs. Reynolds, from their thorough 

 acquaintance with all details of lumber man- 

 ufacture and distribution, should meet with un- 

 qualified success in their new venture. 



Change in Personnel S. A. Woods Machine 

 Company 



Announcement Is made of a change in the 

 personnel of the officers of that foremost wood- 

 working machiner.v house, S. A. Woods Machine 

 Company of Boston, Mass. This is brought 

 about by the retirement of Frank F. Woods, 

 whose health for the last year has been so 

 precarious that he finds it necessary to per- 

 manently retire from business, which will be a 

 matter of sincere regret to the patrons of his 

 company. 



The new president of the S. A. Woods Ma- 

 chine Company is H. C. Dodge, who will act as 

 secretary also. The vice-president is C. W. H. 

 Blood, who also occupies the position of treas- 

 urer. To introduce these two gentlemen to 

 Hardwood Record readers seems scarcely neces- 

 sary, as both have been allied with the Woods 

 company for many years. 



Mr. Dodge has been connected with the com- 

 pany for about ten years. He was born at Wo- 

 burn. Mass., is a Harvard man, and since enter- 

 ing the business has devoted practically all his 

 time in the study of lumber and woodworking 

 affairs. His original connection with the Woods 

 company was in charge of the business in the 

 southeast and southern part of the United 

 States. Eventually he had charge of the com- 

 pany's New Orleans office, and his territory 

 extended from Texas to the Atlantic coast and 

 as far north as the Ohio river. During the last 

 two years he has been general sales manager of 

 the company, and for the last year has filled 

 the position of secretary also. 



Mr. Dodge has grown rapidly both in his 

 knowledge of machinery and lumber affairs, and 

 has a wide acquaintance in the lumber trade. 

 To him is given a great portion of credit in 

 the revolution of dressing lumber, which is now 

 enjo.ved by the planing machine users of the 

 world, as it was largely through his initiative 

 and energy that the S. A. Woods Machine Com- 

 pany undertook to enlarge the usefulness and 

 the possibilities of the planing machine. 



C. W. H. Blood has been connected with the 

 Woods corporation about twenty-one years, dur- 



ing all of which time he has filled the position 

 of head designer and engineer. His original 

 mechanical training was obtained at Cornell, 

 from which college he graduted in 1892. Mr. 

 Blood is a native of Kalamazoo, Mich., and his 

 early business years were spent in lumber opera- 

 tions in that state. He is an active member 

 of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 

 and is associated with other prominent en- 

 gineering and mechanical organizations. His 

 record as an inventor in connection with plan- 

 ing mill machinery is scarcely equalled by any 

 other mechanical engineer in the country. The 

 United States patent office has issued to him, 

 personally, since he has been actively engaged 

 in his profession, forty patents covering various 

 tools, woodworking and planing mill machinery 

 appliances and improvements on such machines. 

 During his connection with the company he has 

 personally supervised the designing and con- 

 struction of every machine that it has put upon 

 the market. 



The two gentlemen named have purchased the 

 interest of Frank F. Woods, and it goes with- 

 out saying that there will be no change in the 

 high-type of the Woods' planing machinery, or 

 in the systematic, careful and painstaking way 



C. W. H. BLOOD, VICE-PRESIDENT AND 



TREASURER, S. A. WOODS MACHINE 



COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. 



in which the business of the company will be 

 conducted in the future. 



The S. A. Woods Machine Company's product 

 has always stood for the best that inventive 

 talent, money and close application to details 

 could produce, and there is no woodworking 

 machinery house in the country that has de- 

 livered a product that has any nearer approxi- 

 mated steel and iron working tools than has this 

 company. 



Hardwood Record wishes to congratulate 

 Messrs. Dodge and Blood on securing control 

 of this great institution, which is only a just 

 recognition of their long service and high talent 

 in connection with the house and the wood- 

 working machinery industry as a whole. 

 October Issue Blue Book 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit 

 Corporation of St. Louis. Mo., has recently deliv- 

 ered to its subscribers the October issue of the 

 "Blue Book," which is the eighteenth volume 

 published by this company. The publishers 

 advise they have taken the utmost care in pre- 

 paring the book to make it as complete and 

 accurate as possible, and the capital and credit 

 ratings contained therein are based on informa- 

 tion obtained from sources deemed reliable. 



