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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10, 1919 



Commodities Are Declining 



But 



Will LUMBER Go Lower? 



Our TRADE BULLETIN 



discusses lumber and analyses 



the situation carefully. 



Send for copy H. R. 5 



Brookmire Economic Service 



56 Pine Street, NEW YORK 



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BLISSVILLE. ARKANSAS 



MANUFACTURERS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



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OAK, ASH and GUM LUMBER 



Can fumiih anjrtliing in Oak. air dried 

 or kiln dried, rough or dreued 



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Harclwoocl — Cypress — Pine 

 3 BAND MILLS 



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Furniture Destroyers in South America 



One of the big factors to be taken into consideration in importing 

 American furniture into the tropical countries of South America is the 

 destruction by termites, or wood-eating insects, which attaclj sills, beams, 

 flooring of buildings as well as furniture and in a short time hollow out 

 the wood so that only a thin shell is left. Sometimes the wood is left so 

 thin that a person may push a finger through the bacli of a chair, top of 

 a desk or a beautiful panel without resistance or injury to the finger. 



The U. S. Trade Commissioner at Colombia says that furniture cannot 

 be protected from the insects by a mere outer coating of varnish or an 

 enamel finish as the termites work on the interior part, but the lumber of 

 which the furniture is made must be thoroughly impregnated with some 

 poisonous or at least distasteful chemical. "If the lumber is saturated 

 with such a chemical that would remain effective even after the wood 

 has passed through the dry kiln, the furniture would resist termites." 

 Softwoods and hardwoods alike are destroyed by these pests and the 

 only ones that escape destruction are those like Spanish cedar or resinous 

 Georgia pine which are disagreeable to the taste of the termites. All 

 other woods must be chemically treated to withstand these ravages. 



In general, the chief requirements are that furniture be substantially 

 built, suited to the climate, and well finished to be acceptable to South 

 American purchasers who usually buy a high grade genuine article and 

 will not consider cheap or veneered imitations. 



The Largest Trees 



New Zealand has put forward its claim on the largest trees in the world, 

 the kauri pine. A government publication describing the "Waipoua Kauri 

 Forest," claims a pine 22 feet in diameter and with a clear trunk of 100 

 feet, and totaling 295,788 feet, board measure. Neither the top nor the 

 average diameter of the trunk is given in the figures reaching Hardwood 

 Kecord, and it is not possible to make a culculatiou to test its accuracy 

 of the total. If correct, the tree seems to exceed in contents the longest 

 sequoias of California measured by F. S. Piummer of the U. S. Forest Serv- 

 ice. He gave about 120,000 feet, board measure for the largest. The 

 diameter of his largest trees exceeded at the base by several feet the kauri 

 pine, but he does not give the top an average diameter, but only the total 

 board feet, and his figures can no more be verified by available data than 

 can those of the kauri pine. The sequoia trunks are as long as those of 

 the pine ; they carry their size about as well ; and there Is apparently 

 something inconsistent when a tree 22 feet In diameter makes 295,000 feet, 

 and one 28 feet in diameter makes only 120,000. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Aircraft Cabinet Company has been incorporated at Mont Clair, 

 N. J. 



The Clay Chemical & Lumber Company has incorporated at Smith- 

 field, Ky. 



The Moore Box Company, Jackson, Miss., has changed its name to the 

 Southern Box Company. 



The Dlbert, Stark & Brown Cypress Company, Ltd., Donner, La., has 

 sustained a loss by fire. 



The Armenia Furniture Company, Canton, Pa., has been succeeded by 

 the Independent Cabinet Company. 



The Moline Lumber Company, Malvern, Ark., is now doing business 

 under the style of the Moline Timber Company. 



The trade will learn with regret of the death of John S. Weilman, Sr., 

 president of the Weidman & Son Company, Trout Creek, Mich. 



Charles J. Carlisle is operating the business formerly conducted under 

 the style of the Stokes Manufacturing Company, Coldwater, Mich. 



The Richardson Brothers Company, manufacturer of furniture, was 

 incorporated at Sheboygan Falls, Wis., by Egbert J. Jairus and Lamont 

 Richardson. The capital is $120,000. 



The Boscobel Table Company has temporarily taken over the old Blash- 

 field shop and after adding a second story will start operations. F. L. 

 Beimborn and A. Blashfield and son Floyd will start up the undertaking 

 and the new and larger factory will not be erected until fail. The new 

 concern starts under most favorable conditions. 



Incorporations : The Sherman Woodworking Company, Long Island, 

 N. Y. ; the Major Cromwell Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. ; the Climax 

 Cabinet Company, Buffalo, N. Y. ; the Epworth Equity Corporation, 

 Epworth, Iowa ; the Southern Lumber & By-Products Company, Hagers- 

 town, Md. ; the Hermitage Casket Company, Nashville, Tenn. 



CHICAGO 



The Michigan Sash & Door Company, Chicago, 111., and Detroit, Mich., 

 is now operating as the Interstate Millwork Company. 



