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ion much benefit would result I'lom teujiug loggiug superintendents 

 to the meetings. T. M. MeCormick of Sardis, Miss., an experienced 

 logger, said that he had learned more iu the one meeting he had 

 attended than in ten years of practical experience. Mr. McCormicli 

 said that most of the loggers attending that session had come 

 e<]uipped with facts and figures. He cited as one instance of tlie 

 beneficial suggestions that were presented a statement from one of 

 the camp managers in attendance whose figures showed that the cost 

 of boarding his men was but one-half of that of any of the others 

 attending. When asked to prove these figures, he said that he em- 

 ployed part of the time of certain employes in his cam]) to plant and 

 laise vegetables and as a result he bought none of this class of 

 food. 



John II. Friant of the Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company 

 expressed his opinion of the possible results to be derived from such 

 an organization. He said that it costs him about $4.00 to cut and 

 deliver his logs to the tram road. E. W. Tschudy of Memphis 

 Tenn., expressed himself as believing most heartily in the logging 

 association and its purposes. Mr. Mc(iraw said that his chief objec- 

 tion to this association was that he was a logging contractor and 

 that he did not want the millmen to have too much information. 



Claude Moore then stated that he is cutting out all day labor and 

 that he is paying not over .$2.00 for pick-up of one half mile and less. 



T. K. Day said that he hires all logging by the thousand and 

 that he does his cutting by the day. He stated emphatically that the 

 man that cuts by the thousand ruins untold quantities of timber. This 

 statement was greeted heartily by the listeners. Mr. MeCormick then 

 said that there is a great difference in the height of stumps left in 

 the woods. He said that this is one of the important questions that 

 comes up before the logging association and that since its organiza- 

 tion the height of stumps has been very materially reduced. He ex- 

 pressed himself as believing that hardwood operators should all join 

 the organization. 



James Boyd, secretary of the logging association, then said that il 

 was not necessary for hardwood men to meet with pine loggers at 

 New Orleans, but that meetings could be held at any convenient 

 place. 



R. M. Carrier moved that a committee be appointed to report on 

 the discussion at the next session. The motion was carried. 



President DeLaney announced meetings of the executive grading 

 conunission and of the executive board. He appointed the following 

 tommitter to report on the logging discussion: T. H. McCdnnick. 

 chairman; J. H. Friant and K. W. Ts.ImiiIv. 



Thursday afternoon's session was ope 1 by the <i)ininitlc(' on nf 



ficers' reports, which recommended the adoption of those reports. The 

 motion of the chairman of the committee was seconded and duly 

 carried. 



J. F.. Rhodes of Chicago, sccrctaryniauager of the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association, told of the purposes and accomplish- 

 ments of that organization and of the various broad questions which 

 it is attempting to solve. His outline of the broad field of national 

 association work was listened to with interest. He then described the 

 Forest Products Exposition, which will be held in April and May at 

 Chicago and Xew York, and told of its purposes and the vastly im- 

 portant position it bears regarding the market for products of the 

 American forests. He urged that the members of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association lend their interest and assistance to this 

 project and urged them to partici])ate in the expositions. 



J. H. Friant, chairman of the committee on logging, then reported, 

 recommending that the association commend the work of the logging 

 association, and further reconunending that individuals become mem- 

 bers of that organization. The report was accepted. 



E. H. Vansant, chairman of the executive grading commission, then 

 reported the changes recommended by that body, as follows: 

 Report of Executive Grading Commisslou 



On clni. maple- niid s.vi:inior.> tlic uracil- is to he made the same as 

 on gum and cutionwond in tin' nnnilicr i: and •". common grades. This 

 nil! standardize the cuttings in all woods except those commonly used for 

 manufacture into clear cuttings. 



WACO.N STOCK OIUDIXO. .\XD I .SSPKCTIO.N HULKS 



Wagon Box Boards 



liasswood. Bay Poplar (Tupelo). I'ottonwood. Gum. Poplar and .Magnolia. 



Widths — Wide, 1.'5 to 17 inches. Narrow, 9 to 12 inches. 



Lk.noths — 12. 14 and 10 feet, hut 1.1% may be 11. I.'? and l,"i feet. 



Thickxes-s — Must he 1 inch thicl< when shipping. 



Defects — Must he free from dL^fects, excepting that no ohjectlon will be 

 made to bright sap or sound discolored sap ; also one sound knot, not to 

 exceed I'/i inches in diameter or its equivalent, showing on one face only. 

 Eleven feet lengths to he free from splits; 12, i:! and 10 feet lengths will 

 admit of a 12-inch split in one end or its equivalent in both ends: 14 and 

 1.5 feet lengths will admit of spWts not to exceed 6 inches In one end or 

 its equivalent in both ends. 



.Vote — Sixteen fci't lengths may have other defects so tliat the board 

 will make one side 11 feet long and one end piece :{ feet 6 inches long. 



Note — Five per cent in feet of a shipment that can he reduced in 

 measurement by cutting the end or edge or both to a size ordered must 

 be accepted and measured as box boards, separate tally to be ki'pt of such 

 hoards, showing reduction in measurement. 



Note Inspectors are cautifined that "Woolly" Cottonwood and lumber 

 so warped that it cannot be n.sed for box boards must be excluded from 

 this grade. 



The changes were adopted as reail. 



Mr. Van.sant stated that lie had been chairman of that body for 

 twelve years and that he desired to retire and expressed the wish that 

 President DeLaney be appointed in his place. 



Thomas W. Fry, c'hairman of the resolutions committee, read the 

 following resolutions, and sup]ileniented them later with a resolution 

 thanking the trade press for assistani'e given the lumber as.sociation : 



