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quarto'" of an inch doop and three-sixteenths 

 wide. Into the groove is insei-ted what miglit 

 he termed a hand of wooden jiegs. similar to 

 tlio hands of wooden pegs wliicli tin- slio'-maliers 

 use in a pegging machine. 



"Tliese hands are ohtaincd as follows : Pine 

 logs are cross cut into round discs a half an 

 inch thicti. The.se discs are split with the grain 

 into tile bands three-sixteenths of an inch thick. 

 Frequently the parquet strips are assembled into 

 lar.uer squares right ui the faetor.v. The squares 

 ;irc held together by ei>iton bagging glued onto 

 tbem and painted with a waterproof matter. 



"As regards the impregnation witli eo!ophon.\ . 

 I he process seems to be very simple. The <-oUi- 

 phony is heated to approximately H4o degrees, at 

 which temperature it is converted into a very 

 thin Ihpiid, this liquid is forced, with relatively 

 light pressure, into the flooring strips. A steel 

 cylinder is used into which arc run steel cars 

 on which the flooring strips arc piled. The pro- 

 cess occupies but a few minute's, if the impregna- 

 tion is to he merely to a depth of a sixteenth 

 of an inch, which is the usual nirihod. It seems 

 to he au easy matter to secure lull penetration 

 with beech flooring, but it is necessary to pile 

 the flooring somewhat loosel.v on the cars and in 

 the cylinders, so as to bring the entire surface 

 in loucli with the iiqtiid. 'i'he strips removed 

 Item the cylinder are left on tlu* cars in au ante 

 room to cool down more graduall.\-. and are then 

 piled loosely so as to allow the colophony to dry 

 out thoroughly. 



*"It is obvious thai Ibis pruct'ss might lie im- 

 jiroved upon readil.\. It is used here on a rcla- 

 (ively small scale for llie reason that the price 

 of colophony is extravagantly high. Impregnated 

 liecch flooring is used particularly in railroad 

 depots, barracks, school bouses and i.dher imlilic 

 buildiugs. 



■■I'looring strips an- nsu:itl.\ Ihrt'.' in loiu int-he.-^ 

 wide.' 



In the company's large illustrati'd circular 

 Ireatin.g of this luachini'. particular attention is 

 drawn to the feed, wliich is tln' stnuigcst possi- 

 ble, consisting of two double geared down driven 

 rolls. The feed wiu-ks arc driven by lli<' uumu 

 tacturer's improved s.\sii'm of gearing and 

 operated by ratchet level- shown ie iln' illustra- 

 tion. This machine has Ibe I'asiest feed t)f any 

 smoothing i>laner now made. 



The frame is very heavy, strongly .girted and 

 bolted together, and rests «n the flocu- the full 

 length of the base, making ii perfectly free from 

 vibratien. 



The cutter-beads arc maiii- ot high duty criici- 

 ble steel, two sided and slotted or the manufac- 

 turer's new safety cylindrical heads as ordered 

 The iournals are niounti'd in patent damp boxes, 

 insuring a,gainst burning. :iml tid.iiistable for 

 wear, rhe pressure bars are ad.iusl.able. the one 

 before the cut concentric willi the I'irele of the 

 knives. 



The table i> planed iierfectly smooth tiud is 

 i; fe.'i, -I inihes long. It rests on a pair of 

 inclines to which it is gibhed. and l)y which it 

 is raised and lowered. The ad.iustrncnt is made 

 by a hand wheel shown at the front of the ma- 

 chine, which operates a pair of screws, one for 

 each incline, mounted on ball bearin,gs. 



The machine is made in five sizes — *24-27-.*Ul-.'U; 

 and 42 inches wide and 7 inches thick. 



Kor further information conecrnin.g this ma- 

 chine, you are invited to write for a" large illus- 

 trated circular to the manufacturi'r at 41 t-4:i4 

 \V. Front street. Cincinnati. Ohio. 



A Brand New Doiiljle Cylinder Cabinet Sur- 

 facer 



It is gratifying to lie able to call the atleulion 

 of Uix'dRD readers to anothi-r new I*"ay & K,gan 

 snachine. as these jieojile manuractun' sncli a 



Biltmore Doings for January 



The work of tlie lliltmore Forest School during 

 .January has covered almost every branch and 

 every iihase of forestry and lumbering, tln' -xpe 

 ricnce in the wttials and in the mills having been 

 nn St diversilied. IM". Schenck has been lecturing 

 o-i forest working plans. 



Among excursions made during the month were 

 those to Ysenburg. under Forstrat Eeiss, and to 

 Eberstadt under Forstrat Joseph. Both of these 

 ranges are pine ranges, stocked with endh'ss 

 stands of shortleave<l pine of su|K'rior quality. 

 The stands .'it "^'seuburg are found on a trtict 



noi'BLE cyLixiii';R c.xbixet surf.\c'er MANrFACTrRrcD i;y thi': ,j. a. fay 



.1- EG.\X COMPANY. CINCINNATI. OHIO. 



high-grade line that every new tool they put out 

 uieets an interested body of users. This new 

 machine is a Double Cylinder Cabinet Surtacer. 

 •designed to meet the most exacting requirements 

 of furniture factories and all kinds ot wood- 

 working plants where an extra sttrface is re- 

 quired for polishing ov varnishing. It is 

 especially adapted C'h- use in parquet flooring 

 factories. 



honght by the slate several years ago. Here are 

 located thousands of acres of pole woods, the 

 stands being some seventy years old. Ail the 

 trees are raised from seeds planted in or about 

 1S4U on former hardwood lands run down by 

 fire, by pasture and by reckless usage. 



At Eberstadt an entirely different regeneration 

 is being followed. Here the pineries are being 

 clear cut. the stumpage removed, and the soil. 



a pure sand, worked over to a depth of fourteen 

 inches. The soil has been enriched by the pines 

 — in nitrogen notably — so as to have become 

 productive enough to last tor a few years' farm 

 <-rop of rye or potatoes. For two or three years 

 after the cut of the old stand, agriculture and 

 till' raising of seedling piiu's by ])lanting are 

 practiced simultaneously. !!y this means a good 

 share of thi.' planting expense is frequently cov- 

 ered. 



A number of wood-consuming plants were vis- 

 ited, notably a veneer mill at Darmstadt, where 

 valuable hardwoods, many new African kinds, 

 were Ijeing cut up. In these establishments the 

 high quality and slow speed ot the work per- 

 formed are equally amazing. The same rule ap- 

 plies to a number of the sawmills which the stu- 

 dents visited. The logs are fed into the saws — 

 gang-saws forming the rule — at the speed of a 

 luneral procession, but the lumber obtained is as 

 .-moot lily sawn as If it were planed. 



.\t Karlsruhe, on the occasion of a visit to 

 some very interesting coppice under standard 

 forests, in charge of Forstmeisler Hamm, tlie 

 students had a chance also to study the importa- 

 tion into Germany of American, Russian and 

 Swedish lumber. It is amazing indeed to find 

 that, within eyeshot of the spruce woods on the 

 hills, the piui- woods in the valley, and the oak 

 woods in thi- inundation districts, Swedisli 

 siiruce, Russian jiine and American oak are piled 

 uj) in the lumber yards. 



The second half of the month of .Tanuary was 

 spent in the heart of the Black Forest, at the 

 Hotel Sand. The usual lecture work was carried 

 on diii-ing the fori-noons. while the afternoons 

 were given up to extfursions into the snowy 

 woods. In tile Black Forest, spruce and fir are 

 regenerated from si^fsown seed. The present 

 stand is the first after the primeval one, which 

 was removed between 1750 and 3.S50 by means of 

 splash dams, now superseded by excellent roads. 



Forestry operations are at a stand-still during 

 winter, usually, with the exception only of log 

 transportation from the woods. The logs are 

 tied together on the roads into rafts; and the 

 team takes a raft of logs at a time over the 

 well-graded roads, the macadam of which is cov- 

 ered with a heavy crust of snow and ice. 



The students also had a good chance, In the 

 course of the month, to see various tree-felling 

 machines. The advjintage in the use of these 

 machines lies, on the one hand, in tile possibility 

 of throwing a tree — wherever it may lean — in a 

 different direction ; and on the otlier hand, in 

 tile possibility of adding a part of the stump onto 

 Ihe butt log of the tree. 



At the Darmstadt Technical Iniversity the 

 students were treated to a series of timber 

 tests, conducted by Dr. I'reuss, and showing the 

 tensile strength, bearing strengtli, breaking 

 strength, elasticif.v, compressibility, abrasibillty 

 and other "bilitie.s" of timber. The Polytech- 

 iiicuni at Darmstadt is wonderfully well-equipped 

 for experiments of tliis character, making lests 

 like those shown continuously on aeconni of the 

 industries of soutiiorn Germany. 



Linehan Lumber Company Makes New 

 Alliance 



ruder date of February 2^!. the Linehan Lum- 

 ber Company of rittsburg. I'a.. is out with an 

 anniunci'iiient to the trade that it is opening 

 branch oflices at No. 1 Madison avenue, New- 

 York City, and that hereafter it will sell the 

 output of Yansant. Kitchen & Co.'s mills In the 

 eastern territory. 



The Pitt-burg ollice of the I.incdian Lumber 

 Company will be continued as in the past, but 

 the .Xew^ York branch will he? equipped with sales 

 representatives as well. 



Under the same dale Yansanl. Kitchen & Co. 

 of Ashland. Ky.. the big poplar and oak manti- 

 factiirers. advise that the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany, with offices at Piilsburg and New York, 

 in the luture will act as their eastern selling 

 agents. Yansant, Kitchen & Co. lie.speak for the 



