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!■:. A. I.aii;;. I'a.piko I.iKlit I.iiiuUii- Ciiupany. Chlcn^o. 111. 

 ■ li, B; Norman. Noruinn I.uinln'r (.'onipiiiiy. Louisville, Ky. 

 W, M. Kltter. W. M. KlltiT Lmnhir (onipiiny, Columbus. O. 

 E. O. Robinson, Mowbray & Koblnsoii Company, Cincinnati. O. 

 S. Liclierman. Licberman. I>iveman & D'Urlcn. NasbvtUe. Tciin. 

 W. B. Townsend,. Llttli' Itivor Lumlx'r Company. Townsend, Tenn. 

 K. H. Vansant, Vansant. Kittlien & Co.. .\shland, Ky. 

 li. M. Vestal, Vestal IiUmber & Manufacturing Company, Knoxvllle, Tenn. 

 Ualpb May. May Brothers, Cincinnati, O. 

 K. K. (iadd, Wisconsin Lumber Compan.\-, Chicago, III. 

 iJeo. K. W. Luehrmann, €. F. Luehrmann llardwood Lumber Company. 

 St. Lcuis. Mo. 



.1 F. Mclntyre, J. F. Mclntyre & Sons. Pine Bluff. Arl<. 



KXECITIVK c;r.\i>IXG lOM MISSION 



W. K. Dol-ine.v, Kentucky Lumber Company. Ciminnati. O., Chairman. 



U. il. Vansant. Vansant. Kitchen & Co.. Ashland. Ky. 

 Thos. W. Fry, C. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, St. 

 Louis. Mo. 



E. A. Lang. Paepcke Leicht Lumber Compan.v, Chicago. 111. 



C M. Crawford, Yellow I'oplar LumixT Company. Coal (!rove, O. 



K. A. Kirby. Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company. Philadelphia, Pa. 



W. B. Burke. Lamb-Fish Lumber Company. Charleston. Miss. 



W. H. Dawkins, \V. H. Dawklns-Lumber Company, Ashland. Ky. 



C. L. Harrison, Himmelberger-Uarrisou Lumber Company, Cape Girar- 

 deau. Mo. 



Frank F. Fee. Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company, Dermott, .Ark. 



J. W. Mayhew. W. M. Ritter Luml)er Company. Columbus, O. 



R. M. Carrier, Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis, Miss. 



B. B. Burns. C. L. Ritter Lumber Company, Huntington. W. Va. 



H. B. Nields, Little River Lumber Company, Townsend. Tenn. 



Mr. Himmelberger was elected by a unanimous rising vote on the 

 part of the members and immediately following, the remainder of the 

 ticket was elected as a whole in a similar manner. 



Mr. Isaacson and Mr. Liebermau were appointed by the chair as 

 committee to escort the newly elected president to the chair. Mr. 

 DeLaney then introduced President Himmelberger and in an eloquent 

 speech of resignation told of the work he had tried to accomplish, 

 with the assistance of the other ofiSeers, and said that he would en- 

 deavor to serve as faithfully while in the ranks. He commended the 

 newly elected president very highly and bespoke for him the same 

 support which Mr. DeLanej' himself had had. 



President Himmelberger spoke briefly, expressing his profound ap- 

 preciation of the honor bestowed upon him. He expressed himself as 

 willing and anxious to do everj'thing possible to advance the best 

 interests of the association during his administration. 



B. B. Burns and Ralph May, first and second vice-presidents, res- 

 pectively, followed with fitting speeches of acceptance and apprecia- 

 tion. 



R. H. Vansant moved that the association confirm the selections of 

 the nominating committee for directors from the v;irious states. The 

 motion was carried. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



ENTERTAINMENT 



In addition to the various private functions in the various dining 

 rooms of the cit}', and elsewhere, the visiting and local lumbermen 

 were treated to an elaborate smoker and vaudeville entertainment iu 

 the banquet hall of the new Hotel Chisca. This immense room was 

 completely filled. The entertainment committee of the association 

 had made elaborate plans for the refreshment and entertainment of 

 those attending. This function took j)lace on the evening of Wednes- 

 day, and after it was over a general confab took place in the cor- 

 ridors and lobby of the hotel. 



An Enjoyable Excursion 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company ojpcrates at Charleston, Miss., the 

 largest hardwood mill in the world. This concern has been a leader 

 in adopting modern methods in logging and sawmilling and is justly 

 proud of its operations. Believing that some of the visiting sawmill 

 men would appreciate seeing the various features which it has in- 

 augurated, including a very successful Kraetzer Preparator system, the 

 company organized an excursion to its plant. About fifty-five visiting 

 lumbermen boarded a special train at midnight on Thursday and ar- 

 rived at Charleston in due time Friday morning. The day was spent 

 in the general inspection of the company's operations at the mill and 

 in the woods, and all returned on the same train Friday night, get- 

 ting in Saturday morning. It is rejiorted by tho.se fortunate enough 



to have made the trip to Charleston that the weather and all other 

 influences were most conducive to a thorough enjoyment of the ex- 

 cursion. The Lamb-Fish mill is a busy place but this particular 

 party was out for a holiday and had one. The inspection was not 

 always of subjects connected directly with the lumber business. A 

 full story will api>ear in the next issue. 



The Badges 

 The handsome badges were presented by Joshua Oldham & Sons, 

 the saw manufacturers, of New York City. Each was in the form 

 of a circular saw carrying the insignia of the association suspended 

 by a leather strap from the clasp, in which was inserted a card bear- 

 ing the name of the wearer. 



Manufacture of Wood Flour 



Little wood Hour is made in America, but inquiries are frequent 

 concerning it, and this indie.ites that interest in the subject is gen- 

 eral. Norway, Sweden, and Germany are the principal sources of 

 supply, and it has been generally reported that the most approved 

 material is .spruce, and that sawdust is used, and that the machinery 

 for reducing the sawJust to flour consists of a pair of old-fashioned 

 millstones, such as country mills employ in grinding corn meal. It 

 appears from a report recently made on the .subject by Consul Robert 

 P. Skinner, Hamburg, Germany, that considerable misunderstanding 

 has existed regarding the manufacture of this commodity. A sum- 

 mary of Mr. Skinner's report follows: 



Norwegian flour contains more resin than German flour, the latter 

 being produced from the waste cuttings by toy and wooden-shoe manu- 

 facturers. It has been stated that large quantities of sawdust of clean 

 white northern ash are available in the United States for the manufac- 

 ture of wood flour, and further details in regard to German mechanical 

 processes have been asked for. 



According to German experience hardwood is the best material for 

 the production of high-grade flour, such as linoleum manufactures re- 

 quire, and this is turned out by machines, some of which are recom- 

 mended as rendering equally efifective service with roots, branches, 

 boughs, sticks, tender shrubbery, slabs and wood waste of every kind. 

 Reducing machinery of this character is used in preparing raw material 

 for a good many chemical and other industries. 



The ordinary process of producing wood flour in Germany consists of 

 feeding the material into a revolving iron cross beater. The material 

 should be not larger than one-half or three-fourths of the length of a 

 finger, and it is beaten to the desired fineness as sawdust, in which is 

 contained a large percentage of exceedingly fine meal. The capacity of 

 the machine depends upon the fineness sought and the quality of the 

 wood, brittle wood yielding a finer fiour and a greater quantity per 

 hour than any other. When it is desired to obtain a meal finer than 

 sawdust a rasping mill is employed. These rasping mills have an inte- 

 rior construction similar to that of the iron cross l)eater, a rasping 

 disk revolving against the inner walls of the apparatus, the metal plates 

 of which present rasping surfaces. Light material fed into this machine 

 to be ground cannot be ejected until it is perfectly ground, whereas in the 

 machine first mentioned the iron cross beater merely revolves in the 

 wood debris. When the output of flour sought is inconsiderable and time 

 does not press, both an Iron cross beater and the rasping apparatus can 

 be utilized in the same machine. 



The rasping mill turns out a product of a sieve fineness of No. 25 

 European. It contains a larger proportion of exceedingly fine meal 

 than that produced by a beating cross. If still finer flour is desired 

 than the rasping mill furnishes, the product of the rasping mill can be 

 passed through a spiral-screw sifting machine. In these mechanical 

 sifters the material passes through a hopper to spiral brushes, which 

 transfer it continually to the face of the sieve, flnally expelling the 

 coarser quantities at the discharge hole. This coarse overflow can be 

 returned to the rasping machine to be reworked, although usually the 

 factories employ the coarse meal as it comes from the sieves. 



Pieces of wood larger than one-half or three-fourths of a flnger length 

 should be crushed before being fed into the Iron cross beater. If the 

 material contains resin and a certain flneness is desired the resin must 

 be removed by other machinery, which is fairly expensive. 



From this it will be observed that while In Germany wood flour Is 

 not mechanically produced from sawdust, there Is apparently no reason 

 why northern ash sawdust could not be worked through a rasping mill, 

 sifted and placed upon the market. 



There is a brisk trade in wood flour In Germany, both for domestic 

 use aud for export. The most recent statistics include imports and 

 exports of wood flour and excelsior under one head and are as follows : 

 Imports. 1911. .1. 102 metric tons, and 1912, 5,318.9 tons: exports, 1911, 

 7,21.3.5 tons, and l'.n2, 9,851.9 tons. Of the exports 703.8 tons In 1911 

 and 1.401.1 tons In 1912 went to France and 1,897.7 tons in 1911 and 

 2.29.">.2 tons In 1912 to Great Britain. 



