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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Annual National Veneer & Panel Manu- 

 facturers' Association. 



The nniiiiiil iiiiM-iiiii; ol ili>> Nullniial Vonwr 

 and I'linol MiiimfiKtmeis' Assorlutloii Is 

 scheduled to be held at the Audltoiliiin hotel 

 In Chicago on Wednesday and Thmsday. Deeem- 

 ber IS and 19. Kveiy Indication i)olnls to th<' 

 largest and most IntcresllnK nieethi); evei- held 

 by this assoelnllon. Xlueli pioyress has been 

 made by It dining the comparatively short time 

 since It «»s organl/eU, and the members will 

 come together at this annual funclion and dis- 

 cuss with each other fully, frankly and fairly 

 the veneer situation and the veneer outlook. 

 Many Interesting discussions will |)revall. and 

 no veneer man can do hlmsell' and his business 

 Justice without being present at this conference. 



Hymeneal. 



On Thursday, Nov. i!S, at Urove (_^ity. Va.. 

 George Carner Koberts, sales manager for D. G. 

 Courtney of Charleston, W. Va., was married to 

 Alberta Jane, daughter of the late David Frank- 

 lin Courtney, and sister of P. (!. Courtney. 



The bride and groom are now taking a wed- 

 ding trip, and will be at home after December 

 15 at 403 Broad street, Charleston. The ni:coiit) 

 extends Its mo!5t sincere congratulations. 



A Model Plant, 



One of the largest plains in llir- world de- 

 voted to the making of steam engines, boilers 

 and feed wafer heaters is that of the Brownell 

 Company at Dayton, Ohio, a bird's-eye view 

 of which is herewith presented. This estab- 

 lishment covers over thirteen acres of ground, 

 and while possibly three otiier establishments 

 in the world occupy an equal or larger area, 

 it is unexcelled in America, and there is no 

 other institution, either here or abroad, which 

 surpasses It in the perfection of equipment 

 for the special line of work which has made 

 the Brownell Company famous. The Brownell 

 shops are all equipped with the best and latest 

 improved types of machine tools, which, with 

 special appliances of their own manufacture. 



ting. This catalogue is at the same time a 

 storehouse of valuable Information and should 

 be In the hands of every user of machinery. 

 The Brownell Company was established In 

 185.'). The Illustration Is from a recent photo- 

 Kraph. and shows the great establishment as 

 it Is today. The company has branch offices 

 In the Bank of Commerce Building at St. 

 I.ouis and in the Monadnock Block. Chicago. 



German Forest Reserves. 



The total area uf Saxony covers ."i.T.S!) ICnglisli 

 souare miles, of which almost half is covered 

 with private or governmental forests, writes 

 Consul W. C. 'I'elchman of Kihenstock. OlUclal 

 llgurcs recently cnmiiilcd by Ihe Saxon govern- 

 ment for the year 1t»(H» demonstrale a net rev- 

 enue of ^'2,l2ii,tyM obtained from the cultivation 

 of 44:5,105 acres of governmental forest land, 

 of which 424,240 acres represent laud covered 

 with trees or soil designated for rotational for- 

 esting. The state treasury places the latter as 

 Its highest revenue producer after the state rail- 

 way, and exceeding the Income from all other 

 sources, taxation included. A net profit of 

 .•jii, 120,037 was added to the slate treasury in 



moo. 



Similar results have been achieved in other 

 German states by systematic forest cultivation. 

 Nearly 50,000 square miles of German soil have 

 been adapted to foresting — nearly one-fourth the 

 area of the country. In all the German states 

 revenue for the stale treasury Is the paramount 

 consideration in determining the species of trees 

 to be planted on government land. Formerly 

 the deciduous tree varieties were planted in 

 preference to the needle-leafed kind. The princi- 

 pal demand for the former was for fuel pur- 

 poses. However, since coal has replaced the 

 deciduous tree In this respect the price for such 

 wood has fallen accordingly. On the other 

 hand, that of the needle-leafed steadily rose un- 

 til today it has become more profitable to plant 

 the latter. This rise is largely due to growing 

 industrial demands for this variety of wood for 

 raw material. 



The gradual increased cultivaiirm of pine for- 



lose manutaclurlng the usefulness of the picea 

 was Incieased still more. An example of how 

 Industries follow the preservation and cultiva- 

 tion of forests Is furnished by the fact that 

 already In 1890 as many as 534 wood pulp fac- 

 tories existed In Germany : 239 of these were 

 located In .Saxony, where they consumed 575.- 

 9G0 cubic yards of picea wood, representing a 

 value of .$1,100,000. The beginning of this In- 

 dustry only dates back to 1843, when Frledrlrli 

 Keller, a Saxon, Invented the process. 



Since 10 per cent of the trunk of this tree Is 

 composed of bark available for tanning It Is 

 also used for such purposes. 



The plcea's , value to forestry Is greatly en- 

 hanced because It flourishes where deciduous 

 forests are greatly hampered, viz., In mountain- 

 ous regions with alllludcs varying from 1,500 

 to 4,50(1 feet. 



The connecliun of forestry with irrigation 

 lias been studied In (jermany for years. One 

 authority on the subject, Professor Ebermaycr, 

 has conducted extensive experlir^nts, with the 

 result of estimating that evaijoratlon of Boll 

 water In forests amounts to 85 per cent less 

 than outside of them. While the forests do 

 not create water springs, they feed and sustain 

 them. In addition to the preservation of soil 

 moisture, resulting from protection against dry- 

 ing winds and the rays of the sun. Wherever 

 forests are absent drouth, storms and sudden 

 floods can create conditions less frequent In 

 well-forested countries. 



The hygienic value of forests Is unquestioned 

 In Germany, their richness in ozone and dust- 

 free character being highly beneficial to health ; 

 hence their cultivation in the neighborhood of 

 cities. 



The Small Mill Revolutionized, 

 It is wonderful what changes have taken 

 place in the small sawmill during the last 

 decade. Ten years ago the main saw did prac- 

 tically all of the work. It not only had to re- 

 duce the logs to boards but in most cases it had 

 to edge the lumber. Of course, both these op- 

 erations could not be done at once, and so the 



PLANT OP THE BROWNELL COMPANY, DAYTON OHIO. 



jigs, templates, etc., enable the company to 

 turn out strictly interchangeable work of the 

 highest class at reasonable cost. Their new 

 engine catalogue shows In Its beautifully printed 

 pages so many different types of engines that 

 the intending purchaser cannot fail to find 

 what he needs to meet fully the conditions of 

 his service, whether it be driving an electric 

 generator or a saw mill, a cotton gin or a 

 flouring mill. The same may be said for the 

 catalogue describing their standard line of 

 boilers and feed water heaters. It shows that 

 the Brownell Company has kept fully abreast 

 of the times and their changing conditions by 

 improved methods of manufacture and perfect 

 knowledge of correct proportion and design in 

 the various details of construction and set- 



ests in the mountainous region of Saxony has 

 been followed by a remarkable development of 

 industries using the wood of the pinus picea. 

 the red pitch pine, the most rapidly growing and 

 best adapted mountain pine, selected by the 

 Saxon government because more profitable than 

 other species that can be cultivated In this 

 climate and in this altitude. 



It Is used in mine construction, for building 

 purposes, sash, floors, shingle roofing, barrels, 

 boxes, matches, bottoms and covers for musical 

 Instruments, resounding boards for pianos, 

 wooden wiring for table covers and window 

 shades, toys, excelsior, furniture, cooperage ma- 

 terial, poles, ladder beams, bean and hop poles, 

 vine props, laths of all kinds, etc. 



With the ascendancy of wood pulp and cellu- 



capacity of the plant was very limited. It the 

 operator happened to be particularly enterpris- 

 ing there was a hand or side edger, but as this 

 bad but one saw only one cut could be made at 

 a time, and a board had to be put through the 

 machine twice to edge It. Sometimes the edges 

 were straight ; sometimes they were not. Some- 

 times the two edges were parallel : oftener the 

 board was tapering. 



The lumber as It left the mill was usually of 

 random lengths, and the ends were cut at every 

 conceivable angle. The amount of freight that 

 was paid on lumber that the producer got noth- 

 ing for — i. e., the waste ends — was considerable. 

 The owner of the small mill in this way pre- 

 sented the railroad company a good many dol- 

 lars every month. 



