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HardWood Record fdail 'Bag. 



(In this department it is proposed to reply 

 to such inquiries as reach this office from the 

 Habdwood Kecord clientage as will be ot enough 

 general interest to warrant publication. Every 

 patron of the paper is invited to use this de- 

 partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt 

 will be made to answer queries pertaining to all 

 matters of interest to the hardwood trade tn 

 a succinct and intelligent manner | 



The Chair of Practical Forestry at Yale. 



That the committee appointed .it the last 

 annual meeting of the National Lumber Man 

 ufacturers' Association to raise n fund to 

 endow a chair of ;i j>p li .-.1 forestry and practi- 

 cal lumbering iu the Yale forest school at 

 Yale university, New Haven, Conn., is getting 

 down to a practical effort in litis endeavor is 

 manifest by the following letter from F. E. 



Weyerhaeuser, chairmi f the committee; ol 



St. Paul, Minn.: 



St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 25, 1905. — Editor 

 Hardwood Record : You are, of course, fa- 

 miliar with the movement Inaugurated at the 

 last annual meeting of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers* Association, held iu Chicago in 

 May, to raise $150,000 with which to endow 

 a chair of "Applied Forestry) and Practical Lum- 

 bering" in the Yale forest school, Yale univer- 

 sity. 



President McLeod of the National Association 

 appointed an executive committee to take charge 

 of this work, consisting of the following lumber 

 manufacturers : 



J. B. White, Kansas City, Mo. 



K. A. Long, Kansas City, Mo. 



C. I. Millard, St. Louis. Mo. 



John L. Kaul. Birmingham, Ala 



I. C. Enochs. Jackson, Miss. 



R. II. Downman, New Orleans, La. 



J. T. Barber, Eau Claire, Wis. 



V. E. Weyerhaeuser, St. Paul, Minn. 



This committee met with President McLeod 

 in Chicago in July, when the methods by which 

 this work is to be conducted were discussed. It 

 was decided to divide the United States into 

 about thirty districts, constituting the principal 

 timber sections, and appoint a general commit- 

 tee of one hundred to work in conjunction with 

 the executive committee in soliciting subscrip 

 tions to this fund. It is proposed i>> make the 

 subscription a popular one by interesting as 

 many individuals as possible, thereby creating 

 the largest possible amount of interest in tie- 

 project. I am pleased to say that the timber 

 owners everywhere seem to appreciate the ben- 

 efits resulting to their interests I'mm the for- 

 estry movement and at the same time they are 

 in sympathy with it because of the beneficial 

 effects which the preservation of the forests 

 have on rainfall, winds, watersheds and the 

 welfare of the land in many ways. They have 

 come to realize that the forestry movement 

 can be made a success only in proportion as 

 those interested in the forest precincts support 

 it. The idea of establishing a chair of prac- 

 tical lumbering in the principal forest school 

 of the country is prompted by the necessity for 

 the foresters of the future having a practical 

 knowledge of the lumber business in all its 

 phases, and the relation of forest preservation 

 and reforestation to the Increasing demam 

 lumber. 



It is our desire to enlist the- cooperation of 

 the lumber trade journals in this movement, 

 and I respectfully solicit your assistance in tills 

 direction, I hereby appoinl you a member of 

 our editorial committee and will see that you 

 are furnished such information regarding the 

 progress of this work as may be of Interest to 

 your readers. We shall be glad to have you 

 comment editorially upon the question as a 

 whole, and appreciate what you have aln 



writti n 1 to It. It ,i,,i we should 



he glad to have i - i 



your publication containing any reference '" 

 this matter, and will thank yon 



have Her In relation to the 



work at any time. 



Thanking you for your cooperation and In 

 it. I am. ,i s trulj . 



C. E WeYEKHAEI i , man. 



Pessimistic on the Subject of Hardwood 

 Dimension. 



Ml M I'll IS. Tl:\\ ,| ,| II \l;|,u 



Bi i ord ■ The article in yo [ s.-pt . 23 



on the hardwood dimension business has I n 



rend and reread by the writer, and lie wishes to 

 jaj thai whoever wrote ii must have had ex- 

 perience. 



Some four years ago this firm was of 

 same oplnh a b ■ all the rest. We bad tjuite 

 of waste material from our sawmill, and we 

 thought we could, with small additi 

 work this waste up and get something out of It. 

 We began to look around for customers, and 

 found plenty who would ta tock at the 



price we offered to sell It. We thought we could 

 get rich working up this waste stuff, but we 



- found we were selling the stock at a loss. 



And this was not all. As we worked the 

 Up we thought it was very line. When it was 

 rejected by our customers, we found that we 

 knew nothing about the grading "i dimension 

 stock, as we lost both lumber and labor. 



The writer was in the yard of a customer a 

 fevi days ago and looked at sonic 2x2 oi 

 that a country mill had sold this man. In the 

 entire carload only about eighteen percent of the 

 stuck had been accepted. The balance was re 

 lected, and the mill man or course didn't gel a 

 copper for his lumber, as the portion accepted 

 by the factory was less than enough to pay the 



freight. Heretofore this man nad I n buying 



from us, and our quotation on tills car of Bquai 

 was just $27 a thousand more than he was I,, 

 paj the country mill man. 



Every man that knows enough to keep out of 

 the fire knows that dimension stock is worth 

 more than tirsis ami Beconds. The lumber comes 

 to the factory .•mil is used WlthOUl waste. While 

 the buyer appreciates this tad and is reminded 

 el il. he will say. "Well, we are able h get ll 

 lor the price we offer you, and if you don'1 lake 

 the order we will place it with a mill man in 

 '.Indiana.' " Bo we don't gel the buslne 



Now, Mr. Editor, what can be il and what 



is going to I..- done? We can buy dimension 

 stock in i ' ■■"<■■ an a ind deliver it to 



our customers at from .<1> to $12 less than we 

 can cu1 ii an.i paj the freight, ami in our opin- 

 ion the con. hi ions will remain the same for some 

 lime to come it was well said by the late 

 I'liincas l, Barnum thai a born every 



minute, ami we cannot figure how m ■ 

 to be remedied. \ on i an ha ■■ your organl 

 and b ■ a " in attend tit 



ii me anil nevet d they 



ask tl'.e other fellow to ,1... They will think 



everyone else Is holding up prices and grades 



and will say, "We have the bulge on thOSI 



lows." They will take a. I what Ibex 



,1 at the meeting, and push right along In 



ild way. 



And that is not all. if we makers of dlmen 



it Ion. 

 then we could make matters belter, but the fel 



■ 

 il ibis kind) win 

 ruin the chance 

 for d 



\ buyer ror ■■ turnll ure factor] told the ■■• 

 ild find enough of this ciai 

 his factory running at it « 



it was reji 

 ■ for nothing in some Ii it al- 



leged oi charged tbe skipper with yard 



ml for hauling tbe st.uk away. 

 We in. mag. I., keep runnlt ul are sol 



making mm Ii I \ out of the dimension bual 



We fullj expei : I.. ttinue 



in this way until a good I mill men 



added to their experli to it 



v for our part, we will di 



thing io get what we an- entitled to, 



Mill. 



foregoing letter is from a well-known 

 Jemphus house, and reflects in a pertinent 

 way the demoralized ami unsatisfactory con- 



i into which the dine took business 



ins country lias fallen. While the com- 

 munication in tone, 

 ii is the belief of the II kBl • BbCOBD that 



by a campaign of education through a dimen- 



-i.ii , iation at i- - part 



pond- 

 ni ...iild be corrected. Today, from a busi- 

 standpoint, the hardwood dimension 

 business is a ,. position. It should 



I the 

 lardwood trade. Experimentation with a di 

 mensiou stock association is at least worth 

 trying ami it is to be hoped that manufac- 

 turers will join in a movement to that end. 

 The RECORD "ill be pleased to hear from 

 J others on tins Subjei t. Kl'l [OB. 



Dimension Stock Association. 

 I...ii>miii. Kl Sept. 28. 1905.— Editor 



Habdti B i We think an association 



of wagon stock producers, which could formu- 

 laic :, gel of intelligent rules equally fair Io 

 both producer and consumer, would he a great 

 benefit. Such an association would be ot 

 .-■ul value to tbe producers, provided we were 

 in shape to insist on selling our stock on these 

 nibs. ami. in case of dispute, had some estab 

 ,1 authority il to for settlement, 

 owing to the gnat territory over which tbesr 

 pioiln red. and the limited num- 

 ber of them wl re men of means, we believe 



Will be a difficult point to overcome. How- 



i em.ugli of the producers think best 



log a i Chicago during the fall. 



il,, „ in, i to attend. B)DW. I.. DAVIS 



A CO 



The Hum, v. RXCORD i- '" rccipt of sev- 

 eral letters "t" a somewhat similar trend from 

 inent dimension stock producers, not 

 only in wagon material, but in dimension 

 utilized b.v the furniture and chair 

 to be a manifest interest 

 looking toward the organization ot" a dimen- 

 iation. The 1 1 ikdwood Rec- 

 ord will take pleasure in Derating with 



-id in tins proposition, and 

 invit 

 manufacture i- on thi 



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