August 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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that the annual last year was postponed on account of the war, and the 

 twenty-eighth meeting, known as "The Great Victory Rejuvenation Meet- 

 ing," will it is planned be sufficiently successful from every standpoint to 

 fully warrant that name. Hoo-Hoo has gone through a trying period and 

 now is again successfully launched on a firm foundation of membership and 

 financial standing. Progress on a better scale than ever before Is assured 

 from now on. The twenty-eighth annual meeting, therefore, will really be 

 the first gathering since the rejuvenated order had successfully weathered 

 the trying periods of the last few years. 



Local plans in preparation for the big gathering which it is anticipated 

 will be a record-breaker, are under the direction of Tom A. Moore, whose 

 name linked with such work is assurance from the start that the outcome 

 will be successful in every particular. Plans are progressing without a 

 hitch and business and entertainment features are of a nature that will 

 make certain the thorough enjoyment of every moment spent at the big 

 gathering. 



Concatenations are being planned from all over the country to take 

 place coincident with the annual meeting, and a monster concatenation 

 to be held at Chicago in conjunction with the business sessions is certain. 

 Nothing has been left unaccomplished that will tend to stimulate the in- 

 terest and enjoyment of attendents and local Hoo-lloo attending the meet- 

 ing and the pleasure session. 



The only thing left now is the assurance of large delegations from Hoo- 

 Hoo bodies in all lumber regions and it is hoped that the anticipation of 

 not only a record-breaking crowd, but a record broken by an attendance 

 immeasurably ahead of anything before accomplished will result. 



Northern Wholesalers Will Meet 



The regular quarterly meeting of the Northern Wholesale Hardwood 

 Lumber Association will be held at the Minneapolis Automobile Club iu 

 Minneapolis on Friday, August 15. The northern wholesale organization 

 is a live proposition made up of prominent members of the wholesale trade 

 in the northern states and their meetings are always productive of exceed- 

 ingly good results. It is expected that the meeting this year will be of 

 more value than ever on account of the drastic conditions now prevailing* 

 in the hardwood business. 



Pertinent Information 



Suggest Philippines as Fertile Field for Machinery Men 



In a letter of recent date, Arthur F. Fischer, director of forestry for the 

 Philippine Islands, suggests that there is a great opportunity existent in 

 the Philippine Islands for the extension in sales of sawmill and logging 

 machinery and accessories. He suggests that copies of catalogues, bulle- 

 tins and price lists, etc., furnished to the Bureau of Forestry at Manila 

 are available at all times to lumbermen seeking such information. 



According to Mr. Fischer there are now in operation in the Philippines 

 forty mills with capacity ranging from 1,000 to 70,000 feet a day. Mr. 

 Fischer says further that the market is very active and export demand 

 very largely increasing. The approximate shipments of the mills operat- 

 ing on large license areas expanded from 38,000,000 feet in 1916 to 60,- 

 000,000 feet in 1918, these figures covering only 10 per cent of the larger 

 operations. This activity has lead to the entry of more large capital, and 

 the demand for logging and milling machinery and supplies is increasing. 

 In the meantime with the opening up of shipment, the possibility of further 

 expansion is growing every day. 



Wood Exports for May 



Statistics showing tlie imports of wood of all kinds, both manufactured 

 and unmanufactured, for May have been published by the Department of 

 Commerce, and comparisons are made with May last year. Little difference 

 in value is shown. The total for May last year was $10,345,777, and for 

 the corresponding month this year it is $10,190,536. So far as quantities 

 are shown in a way for comparison, the exports were larger for the former 

 month than for the latter, but the values ranged higher for May of this 

 year than last. 



Insect Helps Control Other Insects 



A European parasitic fly that may become of far-reaching importance 

 in the control of the gipsy moth and brown-tail moth and certain other 

 serious pests of similar character is being multiplied from importations 

 of this new insect enemy. A report of the work with the parasite known 

 as compsllura concinnata has just been made by entomologists of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



The report shows that this parasite has reduced the damage done by the 

 gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth in the New England states, where they 

 were so abundant and destructive that they ate the leaves off enormous 

 areas of forest and shade trees every year. It has been found that 

 compsllura also aids in the control of other insect pests. 



The white-marked tussock moth, a serious pest in the New England 

 states a few years ago, has practically disappeared since compsllura has 

 become established. The cabbage worm, still a serious pest, has been 

 lessened in some sections. Celery worms are not as common as formerly, 



and the fall webworm is scarcely noticed in the northeastern states now. 



The entomologists do not claim that this parasite is the sole cause of 

 this reduction, but it has proved an important natural enemy to all of them. 

 It is thought that compsllura may become one of the most important 

 economic parasites in this country. The results of the study of this para- 

 site have been issued in bulletin 766 of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



June Exports Break Records 



The Bureau of Domestic and Foreign Commerce has reported that a 

 remarkable jump in exports during June brought the total for the fiscal 

 year 1919 to more than $7,000,000,000, a new record, according to a 

 statement issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 

 Department of Commerce. 



The June exports are put at $918,000,000, which exceeds the previous 

 high record, established in April of this year, by more than $200,000,000. 

 The exports for June of last year were valued at $484,000,000. Total 

 exports for the fiscal year stand at $7,225,000,000, as compared with 

 $5,920,000,000 for the fiscal year 1918. This is more than three times 

 the exports for 1914, the last normal year. Exports since the armistice 

 was signed in November are estimated at about $5,000,000,000. The 

 excess of exports over imports for the fiscal year 1919 was $4,129,000,000, 

 against $3,000,000,000 the previous year, and less than $500,000 in 1914. 



Imports for June were valued at $293,000,000, a falling off from the 

 total of $329,000,000 recorded for May, but an increase over the $260,000,- 

 000 for June of the previous year. Total imports for the fiscal year just 

 closed are placed at $3,096,000,000, as against $2,946,000,000 for 1918. 



The removal of war-time restrictions caused a decided increase in the 

 exports of gold from less than $2,000,000 each in April and May to 

 $83,000,000 in June. Gold exports tor the fiscal year amounted to 

 $117,000,000, against $191,000,000 for 1918. Exports of silver fell off 

 from $29,000,000 in May to $13,000,000 in June, but increased from $139,- 

 000,000 for the fiscal year 1918 to $301,000,000 for 1919. 



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