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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



June 25, 1921 



Beautiful Birch 



KOTAR Y CUT VHNHKRS 



Tlierc is no hfttt-i Mirch Krown ili.'in that found on our 

 TimluT MoMinjjs. Send us a trial order for a crate or a 

 earload, and we are conlident you will forward rope iters 

 wilhnnt solicitation. Quality considered, you will fui.I 

 our prices reason aide. 



Bissell Lumber Company 



Mills 

 I KIPOM. 



WIS. 



Address Dept. 3 

 MARSHFIELD, WIS. 



FURNITURE manufacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 



are specialists in Northern Veneers. 



We also manufacture Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 



Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 



cars and cargoes or mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock 



Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring. Gi-t Our Frue-s 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 Monadnock Block 



GLADSTONE, MICH 



YOU WILL not 

 appreciate the 

 Mengel grade and 

 the Mengel serv- 

 ice until you have 

 tried "something 

 just as good." But 

 will you not taJ^e 

 our word for it? 



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IhE FIenGIL COMPiWY 



INCORPORATED 



IjOU I S VILLE , Ky. 



THE PAST AND PRESENT IN MAHOGANY 



(Conthiuril from iifif/r 3s ) 



increase in their needs. Statistics carefully compiled by associa- 

 tions of manufacturers show that manufacturers' sales during May 

 iiveraged around 75 per cent of normal in volume, though money 

 value, of course, did not average near so high, as prices have gone 

 down nearly forty per cent. 



All of this indicates that the July markets offer a great op- 

 portunity to manufacturers of furniture to revive business on a 

 normal scale, provided they inventory and reflgure their costs 

 on the new basis of cheaper materials and labor, placing prices 

 as low as they can be placed and give a fair profit. This will prevent 

 fluctuation of prices on the market and give the market the stability 

 that will convince the retailer that it is safe to buy. Everything is 

 said to depend on this. 



At the seventh mass meeting of Living Room Table Manufac- 

 turers in Chicago, June 14, at the Auditorium Hotel, M. Wulpi, 

 commissioner, gave a diagnosis of present conditions in the living 

 room table industry, in which he reported that the Furniture 

 Council's recommendation for June inventory had been favorably 

 acted upon by a number of living room table, dining table and 

 piano bench manufacturers. He urged the necessity of knowing 

 the actual situation in order to make a correct and safe stand 

 in the July market. There must be a stable market in July for 

 renewal of production and business, he said. He told the manu- 

 facturers they must get off the present "dead center." 



Before the close of their meeting the Living Room Table Manu- 

 facturers adopted a resolution saying "that in the opinion of manu- 

 facturers present, and in view of conditions existing, it w^ill be 

 necessary and essential that manufacturers go into the July market 

 with definite prices, based on safe costs and that said prices be 

 then maintained and no reduction made therefrom. 



West Baden, Ind.. was selected as the place for the next mass 

 meeting, which will be held iri Septeniber on a day to be selected 

 by the Executive Committee. 



In his report of the thirteenth mass meeting of the National 

 Association of Piano Bench & Stool Manufacturers, Niagara, On- 

 tario, June 9- 1 0, Mr. Wulpi said present complications of the 

 valuation commission indicate about a 16 per cent increased cost 

 between product of present 60 per cent and normal. 



Mr. Wulpi also urged in this industry the necessity of the half- 

 yearly inventory as a guide to needs of the July market. 



iContiutifd from fHujv 40) 

 production by associated control, but we can by united effort and 

 co-operation increase the demand in our present markets as well 

 as new markets to be created. 



This is not an idle dream, but is following the successful cam- 

 paigns as worked out by numerous industries in the past, which 

 have been carefully studied and are sure results. 



No one, nor any few concerns, can be expected to carry on a 

 campaign of educational endeavor or trade extension work for 

 the entire industry, but by associating ourselves into one bureau 

 under one management, the financing will not be burdensome, 

 and the benefit, whether direct or indirect, will be reflected in 

 the industry as a whole, and each of us will secure his share. 



As the demands catch up with the supply, it will naturally 

 follow that the price of our commodity will be in keeping with i*^s 

 value, that our plants be kept up to normal operating capacity, and 

 our market stabilized. 



We have drifted with the tide, buffeted about by public ignorance 

 and indifference as to our product, with no sail and no objective 

 port. 



Supposing that we overhaul our boat, hoist the sails of educa- 

 tion, advertising and determination, and start for the port of 

 Greater New Business in the good ship Plywood Trade Exten- 

 sion Bureau. 



Yours truly, 

 Plywood Trade Extension Committee, G. O. Worland, Chairman 



