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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



November 25, 1920 



QUICK REPAIR 



Is a material very desirable for use by woodworking manufacturers of all 

 kinds and is used for repairing- splits, checks and other defects in both surface 

 and core stock. 



Made in colors to meet the requirements of the best finishes of all 

 cabinet woods. 



Put up in tubes for convenient use on surface stock and in quart cans for 

 larger defects in core stock. 



Quick Repair has been used by some of our customers for a number 

 of years. 



Small sample tube mailed free on request 

 MANUFACTURED AND SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY MAKERS OF 



PERKINS 



1S3 



Trade Mark 

 Res. U. S. Pat. OflF. 



PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 



Factory & General Offices: 



LANSDALE, PA. 



Sales Office: 



SOUTH BEND, IND. 



I t 'tnil itiU' il from inhic '^^ S 



available quantity of a material such as this is already 

 small and swiftly decreasing that the cost will increase 

 instead of decrease. "The cost of veneer (quartered oak) 

 cannot be reduced materially from its present basis, " 

 said Mr. Knight. "Some of the manufacturers are prob- 

 ably hard up financially and are cutting prices, certainly 

 to their own ultimate detriment. Prices today are as low 

 as, or lower than they ought to be. The prices early last 

 spring and summer were too high, but the reduction has 

 been thirty-three and one-third per cent or more. How- 

 ever, there has been no reduction in the cost of the logs 

 from the farmer who has a few fine oak trees which can 

 never be replaced once they are cut, even if the furniture 

 factory needed the veneer bad enough to offer a dollar a 



J. J. NARTZIK 



INCOBPORATEI) 



MILLS , GENERAL OFFICES 



GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. '^''^ MAUD AVENUE ^^D WAREHOUSE 

 PES ARK, ARKANSAS C^ XJ T C~* A C~i O CHICAGO, ILL. 



Rotary Cut Veneers 



and 



Panels 



CARLOAD LOTS OR L. C. L. SHIPMENTS 



foot for it. The supply of oak logs today is certainly 

 limited and it has only been owing to the prevailing prices 

 that the ovi'ners were induced or tempted to dispose of 

 their holdings of the few fine old 'monarch" white oaks. ' 

 Mr. Stark expressed the opinion that the "trade gen- 

 erally should be educated to the thought that prices are 

 about what they should be, based on present cost of 

 production and that the buyers of veneer are not going 

 to get it at any less money in the future. If this was done, 

 they, in turn, would hand the information to their cus- 

 tomers and eventually the wheels of industry would get 

 started again. In other words," he wrote, "my thought is 

 that the prices are now at the bottom and from now on 

 there will be a reaction, although not as great as the high- 

 water mark of prices in the early part of this year." 



In reply to a question as to what might be done to stimu- 

 late the demand and increase use of quartered oak veneer, 

 opinions were uniformly that the intrinsic worth of this 

 commodity will always insure a considerable demand. 

 "The users of quartered oak veneer have tried time and 

 time again," said Mr. Wright, "to guide the public taste 

 in the matter of styles produced in oak; but have been 

 compelled to (just as the trade dreamed) come back to 

 their old reliable friend. This same effort has been made 

 within the last several months to our certain knowledge 

 in the case of one of the factories that we allude to and 

 when the sales end of the business was consulted, the 

 management of this very large corporation came to the 

 conclusion that they must continue to use oak." 



