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useless sizes anj patterDs. The sraaller mimbev of standard sizes 

 ,aud patterns will be introduced. Tlie inevitable result of this move 

 will be a better class of work and greater etficiency and economy in 

 manufacture. It will also mean improved service to customers as the 

 ability to carry in stock any article of commerce greatly reduces the 

 difficulty of sales and delivery. Besides saving a great deal of time 

 in useless changing of machinery, it wUl also do away with the neces- 

 sity for carrying extra equipment for lathes and mortises. The 

 direct result of standardization in hub manufacture will be a reduc- 

 tion in the variety of spokes manufactured. The good etfects as felt 

 by spoke manufacturers will be equally noticeable as those felt by 

 the manufacturers of hubs. 



An Opportunity to Reduce Fire Risks 



The approach of the annual shut-down season should bring to the 

 mind of the lumberman ideas involving other efforts than merely 

 to improve the various mechanical features of his plant such as 

 repairing machinery, in shop construction, taking out old equipment 

 and putting in new, etc. The strong campaign which a certain mu- 

 tual tire insurance company carrying lumber risks exclusively has 

 been carrying on with the view of educating the lumber trade to the 

 necessity of improving conditions at the plants, should awaken the 

 lumbermen and owners of other 



woodworking plants to the neces- =unsolicited TESTIMONIAL 



sity for doing everything possible 

 to safeguard their properties and 

 hence materially reduce the .cost 

 of their fire insurance. A great 

 deal has been written by this 

 company involving many sugges- 

 tions for producing this effect. 

 One of the most important things 

 pointed out has been the advisa- 

 bility of entirely whitewashing 

 the interior of sawmills covering 

 all points inaccessible while run- 

 ning, on which dust can accumu- 

 late. This whitewashing is a 

 means of materially reducing the 

 risk of fire, and is such a simple 

 operation and so inexpensive that 

 there is no excuse for any saw- 

 mill owner not to take advantage 

 of it while his mill is not tun- 

 ning. Numerous fires often re- 

 sult from sparks, matches, cigar- 

 ette or cigar butts and other 

 points of fire lighting on grease 

 soaked wood. It would seem that 



March, lS)li, aggregated in value $1.3,634,108. This represented the 

 total shipment of 776,992,000 feet. The total during the preceding 

 fiscal year was 847,948,000 feet, valued at $l.'),94S,7yi. In this line 

 of e.xport also the fiscal year ending last March shows the smallest 

 total of any year in the last five. The value of pulp-wood export 

 during the same period was less than either of the two preceding 

 years, aggregating $5,697,901, representing a total of 879,775 cords. 

 On the other hand, the import value of sawed boards, planks, etc., 

 subject to duty entering Canada from the United States has increased 

 rapidly during the last few years, the total during the fiscal year 

 ending ilarch 31, 19lL', amounting to 52,338,000 feet, with a value of 

 $687,659. The imports of oak lumber during the period amounted 

 to 02,280,000 feet, with a value of $2,411,766. This is a greater 

 import value than any of the four preceding yenrs. 



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Duluth, Minn.. Dec. 13, 1912. 

 HARDWOOD RECORD. 

 Chicago, III. 

 Gentlemen: — I am returning herewith the slip author- 

 izing you to continue our advertising for 1913 on the 

 same basis as for this year. 



I will take this opportunity to remark that my records 

 for the past six months prove your paper to have been 

 among the most valuable of our advertising mediums. 

 We sincerely hope that such will continue to be the 

 case during 1913 and that the good results you secure for 

 your advertisers will add immensely to your own pros- 

 perity during the coming year. 



Yours very sincerely. 



CLYDE IRON WORKS, 

 Chas. Mackintosh, Adv. Mgr. 



it would be a pretty good policy 



of self protect ion to thoroughly scour such surfaces and cover them 

 with a coat of paint from which grease can be cleaned daily rather 

 than allowing it to accumulate and soak into the wood. It would 

 seem, too, that this is a good period for a general cleaning up, elim- 

 inating all dust from cracks, crevices and beams throughout the mill. 

 It is these little accumulations of refuse that are often the breeding 

 spots of what eventually are disastious fires. It surely is to the 

 interest of the sawmill man or owner of the woodworking factory 

 to take advantage of this period to do everything possible that will 

 result in lowering his insurance costs. 



Trade in Forest Products Between the United States 

 and Canada 



Statistics on the export value of wood prodiu-ts from Canada to 

 the United States covering the fiscal year ending March 31. 1912, 

 show that the value of these exports is the smallest during the past 

 five years with the exception of 1909. The total this year was 

 $30,065,206. The same can be said of the export value of manu- 

 factured wood specifically, the total in this case being ,$25,444,986. 



The exports of planks and boards during the fiscal year ending 



What Is Christmas Without a Tree? 



A Canadian lumber journal of merit, in couinientiug upon the cut- 

 ting of youug evergreen trees for purposes of decoration and senti- 

 ment in connection with the Christmas season, says that it has called 

 attention to this matter regularly at Christmas time each year and 

 that it hopes that the authorities will do something to stop the 

 attendant waste which results from the celebration of an event 



which can just as well be cele- 

 brated in some other manner or 

 with trees equally effective if 

 made of some artificial material. 

 The fact that an enormous num- 

 ber of young trees are cut each 

 year for Christmas tree pur- 

 poses is pretty general knowl- 

 edge, as is also the fact that in 

 cutting these trees, there is an 

 enormous unnecessary waste at- 

 tendant through poor judgment 

 in cutting and poor packing, it 

 is very doubtful, however, if any 

 but a very small percentage of 

 even such practical men as lum- 

 berman will feel any sympathy 

 for a plea having as its object 

 the elimination of one of the 

 most pleasing customs of civil- 

 ized people. One needs but to 

 think of the extreme joy which 

 the sight of a beautifully 

 trimmed Christmas tree creates in 

 the heart of the small child and 

 then compute the number of such 

 cliildren and the aggregate of such 

 joy to be fully convinced that the 

 elimination of this so-called waste will cause a waste of far more 

 importance, — that is, it would be one step toward the destruction of 

 a sentiment which is one of the strongest and most securely cemented 

 stones in the foundation of our civilization. The elimination of the 

 Christmas tree custom would undoubtedly destroy half of the senti- 

 ment attached to Christmas. This would certainly not work to the 

 ultimate advancement of our people. 



What we want rather is an intelligent regulation governing the 

 cutting of Christmas trees and their shipment and mai'keting. There 

 is no reason why ultimately special plantations could not be set aside 

 for the growth of Christmas trees, creating a perpetual supply of 

 these trees and doing away entirely with the destruction of natural 

 growth which would eventually be of suitable size for sawlogs and 

 pulp-wood. The trend of modern conservation would certainly indi- 

 cate that such a plan is not at all impractical. The question h.is been 

 discussed at different times by interested authorities and it is not at 

 all improbable that not many years hence we will see this scheme in 

 actual operation. 



While it is true that this custom is not general in Canada and that 

 the editorial referred to is opposing the cutting of Canadian trees. 



