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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 2n. 191" 



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Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



The Home of the "Peerless " Standard Brand Products 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN MIUs at Gladstone and Escanaba. UlcUgan 



Western Office: 

 516 Lamb&r Exchaiie:e. Minneapolis, Minn. 



Manufacturers of the following "Peerless" Standard Brand Products: Hardwood Flooring, Staves, 

 Hoops, Heading and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Posts, Poles and Ties, 

 and Hemlock Tan Bark 



"Peerless" Rock Maple, Beech & Birch Flooring 



have a standard of their own, are guaranteed TRY IT THE 

 and are said by dealers to bold trade. We ikri^vT TIIUV 

 ship It In straleht or mixed oars — Car or Carso. r'lIiA I I IMb 



Memhera of Maple Flooring Uanufacturert' Asiociation. (When writinc mention the Hardwood Recard.) 



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The Mail Bag 



B-l 105— Treenails Wanted 



Portland, Ore., March 12. — Editor Hardwood Record : We will thank 

 you to furnish us with the names of some o£ the manufacturers of locust 

 and of hickory. We desire to secure a supply of locust and hickory tree- 

 nails for the shipyards. . 



B 1106 — Wants Lemonwood 



Massachusetts, March 10, 1917. — Editor Hardwood Kecogd : Kindly 

 advise a source of supply for lemonwood. We wish to secure some of 

 this wood for experimental purposes and would appreciate your advice. 



B-l 107— California Redwood 



Chicopee, Jlass., March liU. — Editor Hardwood Kecord : Can you in- 

 form us of any shipper of California redwood who could furnish us with 

 pieces 3" thick, 25" wide and S' long? 



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Clubs and Associations 



Planning the Hardwood Campaign 



The first conference of mills to consider the new plan of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association was held in Cincinnati, March 10, and was at- 

 tended by representatives of thirty-one mills. These men were enthusiastic 

 over the prospects for the new bulletin which will be scut out once a week, 

 with a montbly review of the information gathered from mills as to trade 

 conditions. It is predicted that this will prove helpful to hardwood inter- 

 ests and serve as a guide in manufacturing stocks of particular kinds to 

 meet the needs of various industries. 



Hemlock and Hardwood Matters 



The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' .Association has 

 formally served notice on the rules committee of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association of the change of rules in selects of hardwoods and 

 other woods grown in this locality which' were adopted by the Northern 

 Hemlock body at its recent meeting in Milwaukee, at which time similar 

 rules were submitted from the Michigan association. These changes in 



rules were to be considered Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week 

 by the rules committee of the National body at its meeting In Chicago 

 and by the entire National hardwood body at its meeting on June 15. 



Birch and maple was conspicuous in the exhibit by the Northern Hemlock 

 and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at Pittsburg on March 21 and 

 22 at the meeting of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. 

 The exhibit was in charge of Roger B. Simmons, timber expert of the 

 association. O. T. Swan, secretary of the Northern Hemlock and Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' .\ssociation was in Chicago JIarch 19 at the meeting 

 of the .American Wood Preservers' Association. On Wednesday of next 

 week he will attend a meeting of the American Railway Engineering Asso- 

 ciation and a special meeting of the committee on structural timbers of 

 the .\nierican Society tor Testing Materials. 



The association will be represented at the annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association in Chicago April 2 to 5 by its 

 president and secretary, bureau heads and members who are directors in 

 the national body. The work of their association will be set forth to show 

 what can be done by a regional association working in co-operation with 

 the national body. 



ilany members of the association have written to the office of Secre- 

 tary O T. Swan regarding the possibility of separating curly birch. The 

 general trend of letters indicates that there is a desire at mills, where it 

 is practicable, for such separations, since it is known that not only is a 

 premium paid for curly birch but it would serve to increase the market for 

 plain birch in the furniture and fixture trade where a certain proportion 

 of the curly grain can be used to advantage in the more prominent parts 

 of the furniture or the fixtures, carrying the uuselcoted birch with it. Only 

 two firms in the northern association have reported curly birch on hand 

 ready for shipment although many have indicated that they will be glad 

 to sort it in the future if any demand de%-elops. Secretary Swan expressed 

 It as his opinion that such a market is available. 



Exhibits of all commercial woods grown in Wisconsin and northern 

 Michigan are being prepared by the association for distribution among 

 the high schools of the territory covered by its membership. These ex- 

 hibits include fifty-two sets of labeled wood specimens together with appro- 

 priate information and illustrations of the lumber industry and the uses 

 of each wood. The exhibits are sent to the public museums at Milwaukee 

 and loaned by that Institution to the high schools. 



Manual training departments of various schools in Wisconsin and 

 Michigan are being furnished as a special exhibit of woods appropriately 

 labeled, manufactured by the members of the association. These pieces 

 are four inches wide and twelve inches long and are suspended from a 

 maple or birch boanl. The exhibits are being furnished at the cost of the 



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