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HARDWOOD RECORD 



On motion, the report of the president was 

 referred to a committee consisting of J. B. 

 Sansom. F. F. Fee and J. IT. Xorthup, and 



Tims. W. IKV. ;ST. I.Ul IS. Mil 



the reports of the secretary and treasurer to 

 the finance committee. 



J. V. HUI, chief iiisjitotor, tlieii read his re- 

 port, as follows: 



Beport of Ciief Inspector. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Associa- 

 tion : Work in the inspection department during 

 the year just past has brought me in contact 

 with many of the customers of our members 

 and lumbermen generally throughout the diSfereiit 

 sections of the country and has afforded a good 

 opportunity to judge of the progress being made, 

 as well as developing the weak spots to be 

 strengthened in our methods of doing business 

 Considering the great quantity of lumber shipped 

 under onr grading rules, the relnspection lias 

 been notably small. During 1905 the reinspec- 

 tions made show about eighteen per cent with- 

 in the four per c ent limit, fourteen per cent above 

 grade and seventy per cent that contained lum- 

 ber both above and below the grade it should 

 have been. This directs attention to the neces 

 slty of organized and systematic effort to teach 

 vour inspectors at the point of shipment how to 

 make a more uniform grade of lumber than 

 some are now making. To do this a competent 

 man should go into a manufacturing center, call 

 a meeting of the Inspectors of the mills, lake 

 a few thousand feet of mill run lumber and have 

 each man pass im the grade of each board, and 

 when the differences are so developed discuss and 

 decide which is right, and .so gradually get a 

 common understanding and practice in grading 

 thronghout the entire [uoduclng country. This 

 will reduce the number of relnspectlons neces- 

 sary, and In effect spend our monev to prevent 

 Instead of cure the disease. It will not require 

 a very large force of men to do this, and I 

 strongly urge that a sutllclent number of In- 

 spectors be employed to do this work effectually. 



The practice of mixing grades is gradually dis- 

 appearing but Is Btlll sonieflmos In evidence. Of 

 course, this means the manufacturer is unwit- 

 tingly furnishing the means lo bear his own 

 prices, while the manufacturing (onsumer who 

 accepts mixed grades accepts less value than he 

 should and thereby increases his cost. Too much 

 cannot be said against fhis pernicious practice 

 which has been one of the very worst evils of 

 the business. I.'niformlly of grading and fair 

 value should be the aim of evcrv manufacturer, 

 and Is the best evidence of the ability of his 

 Inspectfr. 



l.umber shipped with a percentage above grade 

 and some below grade, altliough one may equalize 

 the value of the other. Is almost sure to cause 

 complaint and subject the Bblpper to expense of 

 readjustment, which generally consumes all the 

 profit in ilie shipment. 



I am convinced that the manufacturers, almost 

 without exception, are anxious to grade their 

 lumber as It should he and the customers arc 

 equally willing to accept what Is right, so that it 

 Is now largely a qni'sllon of gelling Inspectors 

 upon a hajils of unlforinllv In their work. 



The wave of dlsjipp'oval of our rules by those 

 who did not nnderstand tliem is fast pissing 

 away, and If all members adhere strictly to the 

 mles I predict a growth In the Hardwood IManu- 

 factnrers' Association that will make It one of 



the greatest organizations of the kind in the 

 country. ' 



Gentlemen, I thank you. 



J. V. IliLL, Chief Inspector. 



Congratulatory messages were read by the 

 secretary from Wm, H. WhitQ Boyne City, 

 Mich.; Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, 

 St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. C. A. Schenck, Biltmore, 

 N. C. ; J. E. Jones, Maple Rapids, Mich., and 

 )thers. 



W. .\. McLean, niaiiagor of the Wood-Mo- 

 saic Flooring Company, New Albany, Ind., 

 announced that the lumber dealers of Louis- 

 ville and New Albany desired to have the 

 members of the association and its guests 

 become their guests at a supper to be held 

 on Wednesday evening in the large jirivate 

 dining room of the Gait House. The invi- 

 tation was accepted. 



Adjournment was then taken. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The attendance at the Tuesday afternoon 

 session was still greater than in the morning. 



The committee on the president 'a address, 



\v. M. niTTKR, coi.u.Mrti's, o. 



of which J. B. Kausom was chairman, made 

 the following report, which was adopted: 

 Beport of Committee on President's 

 Address. 



Mr. President: We. your comuiitlee appointed 

 lo report on the piesldent's address, respectfully 

 submit the following: 



We have gone over the addi-ess Ihoroughly 

 and have selected the most promiueut parts 

 thereof to be brought befoi-e the convention for 

 action, and recommend that the president be 

 authorized to appoint <*ommlttces to take care 

 of that part of the work, as follows : 



1. Committee on manufacture and grading 

 of lumber subdivided—- 



a. Committee on poplar and basswood to 



consist of seven. 



b. Committee on oak, ash and chestnut to 



consist of seven. 



c. Committee on cheny. walnut, butter- 



nut, sycamore, hickory and pecan to 

 consist of live. 



d. Committee on beech, birch, rock and 



soft elm, hard and soft maple to 



consist of three, 

 c. Committee on cottonwood to consist of 



three. 

 t. Committee on gum to consist of three. 



2. Committee on published valuations sub- 

 divided— 



a. Committee on poplar and ba.sswood to 



consist of seven. 



b. Committee on oak, ash and chestnut to 



consist of seven. 



c. Committee on cherry, walnut, butternut, 



sycamore, hickory and pecan to con- 

 sist of three. 



d. Committee on beech, birch, rock and 



soft elm, hard and soft maple to 

 consist of three. 



e. Committee on cottonwood to consist of 



three. 

 t. Committee on gum to consist of three. 



3. Committee on finance to consist of five. 



4. Committee on applied forestry and prac- 

 tical lumbering to consist of three. 



5. Committee on dimension ■ stock to consist 

 of Ave. 



6. It is also recommended, to expedite bus! 

 ness, that the president announce that the dif- 

 ferent states should hold their state meetings 

 for the purpose of electing candidates for the 

 ollice of vice presidents and directors, and that 

 they should hand the names of tlie same to the 

 nominating committee. 



7. We al.so recommend that, owing to the 

 fact that it is in the order of bu.siness during 

 this convention for the election of olHcere for 

 the ensuing year, the president appoint a nomi- 

 nating committee of five to report to the con- 

 vention for the election oE executive otllcers. 



We would suggest that these committees be 

 appointed and be instructed to go into executive 

 session as soon as possible, and report at to 

 morrow morning's session. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



,ToHN B. R.vNSOM, Chairman : 

 I'RA.NK F. Fek, 

 J. H. NOBTUUP. 



Wm. Wilms' Address. 

 William Wilms, vice president of the 

 Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company, then read 

 a most interesting paper on ' ' Applied For- 

 estry and Practical Lumbering," which is 

 herewith reproduced: 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Associa- 

 tion : During the Forest Congress which was 

 held at Washington in the early part of Janu- 

 ary. 190ri. at which I had the honor to repre- 

 sent this organization, one of the sessions was 

 devoted to the discussion of "The Lumber Indus- 

 try and the Forests." 



As pointed out in a , number of the able ad- 

 dresses that were made at the congress, lum- 

 bermen as a rule are slow to appreciate that 

 forestry and practical lumbering liave points in 

 common, and are more inclined to adhere to the 

 antiquated view that they arc diametrically op- 

 posed to one another. 



While forestry in its highest state of develop- 

 ment may not be applicable to the operatU)ns 

 of the majority of enterprises here represented. 

 I here is no doubt that tlie lumber business at 

 large could be elevated to a higher plane of 

 elliciciicy if the tlieoretical lu-inciplcs advocated 

 by forestry were made use of in practice. 



In viewiug this subject I naturally have in 

 mind primarily the application that forestry 

 could find in the ojierations wlilcli our firm con- 

 ducts in the Soutli. and I do not hesitate to 

 stale that a man fully eriuipped with a thor- 

 ough knowledge of the subject, such as only the 

 training of a school of forestry could give, would 



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have a splendid field In our business, and I be- 

 lieve that conditions in the operations of quite 

 a number of other mi'mbeis of the association 

 arc not unlike ours. The I'mest Congress held 

 at Washlnglou in .lanuarx'. lint,",, lias probably 



