October 10, 1919 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



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the designing and construction of the Penrod veneer plant, which is 

 located on the Kansas City Terminal Railroad with direct con- 

 nection with the principal trunk lines reaching Kansas City. 



The daily cut of the sawmill is 1 5,000 feet of logs, and of the 

 veneer mill, 4,000 feet of logs. The latter is equipped with two 

 Capital veneer lathes, one 124-inch knife with 72-inch swing, 

 and one 102-inch knife, cutting about 75.000 to 100,000 feet of 

 veneer daily. Two large warehouses hold about 10,000,000 feet of 

 veneers and a stock of walnut lumber approximating 3,000,000 

 feet is maintained in the lumber yard. Logs are shipped to Penrod 

 at Kansas City from practically every source where there is suffi- 

 cient to make a carload, but the principal supply is obtained from 

 Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas. 



The great volume of the company's business goes principally 

 to the furniture and panel trade, but it also specializes in interior 

 finisht one of its latest contracts covering the interior trim of the 

 new $200,000 home of the Hereford Cattle Breeders* Association 

 in Kansas City; also, the Linwood Boulevard M, E. Church, the 

 largest church in Kansas City, which w^ill require about 40,000 

 feet of walnut lumber, and 8.000 feet of veneer, the big structure 

 being finished throughout in walnut. 



Up to the time of the war, the walnut lumber business was 

 largely export, Mr. Penrod personally making frequent trips to 

 Europe to look after foreign trade. Prior to the time this country 

 entered the war, the company manufactured gunstocks for some 



of the foreign governments, and when this country became a 

 party to the war, gunstocks and airplane propeller lumber were 

 manufactured for the United States, and the company continued, 

 of course, to supply material for the other allied countries. The 

 plant was operated 100 per cent for war w^ork, and for about 

 eighteen months prior to the signing of the armistice the wheels 

 were turning night and day, utilizing about 60,000 feet of logs 

 every twenty-four hours. When the war terminated, 10,000 

 gunstocks were being supplied our government every twenty-four 

 hours, and altogether about 2,000,000 gunstocks were furnished 

 the allied governments. The normal working force is about 150 

 men, but during the war period from 350 to 400 men were em- 

 ployed. In connection with its war work, the company leased 

 the plant of the Keystone Table Company at Johnson City, 

 Tenn., which was operated exclusively on w^ar contracts for about 

 two years. 



It has been a year since the war ended, and, of course, the 

 company is nov^f devoting its entire energy to the production of 

 w^alnut veneers and lumber for the commercial trade. Penrod 

 service is a trade axiom, which those who have tested this service 

 readily appreciate. This service does not merely mean prompt 

 shipment made possible by warehouse and yard stocks, coupled 

 vv^ith excellent transportation service, but it also signifies an un- 

 derstanding of walnut lumber and veneer utilization by men who 

 have "been through the mill"; or, conversely, a practical compre- 

 hension of trade requirements. 



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Glue that Foams 



Glue which foams badly is objectionable because air bubbles are 

 liable to get into the joint and thus reduce the area in which the 

 glue is in contact with both faces. Foamy glue is especially unde- 

 sirable for use in gluing machines, as the glue is agitated much 

 more than when it is used by hand, and the danger of incorporat- 

 ing air bubbles is greater. The amount of foam is tested by beat- 

 ing the glue solution for a specified time with an egg beater or 

 similar instrument and then noting the height to which the foam 

 rises and the quickness with which it subsides. Different labora- 

 tories do not make the test in exactly the same way. After a 

 method is once adopted in any laboratory it should be strictly 

 adhered to thereafter. It is a general custom to determine the 

 foam on the solution used in the viscosity test. 



The Litmus Test for Glue 



George M. Hunt, a government glue expert, says that by its 

 reaction to litmus a glue shows whether it is acid, alkaline, or neu- 

 tral. The test is made by dipping strips of red and blue litmus pa- 

 per in the glue solution remaining after the viscosity test or some 

 other test, and noting the color change. An acid glue turns blue 

 litmus red, an alkaline glue turns red litmus blue, and a neutral 



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