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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 192J 



seriously Jraiu stocks available now and to be available for the next 

 six or eight months. It must not be forgotten that hardwood lum- 

 ber is not even approximately shipping dry in less than six to seven 

 months after it is cut. Furthermore with fully eighty per cent of 

 the hardwood production shut down, the process of starting up will 

 take a good deal of time in itself. A crew can not be gotten to- 

 gether and the mill put underway overnight. Here and there that is 

 possible in the larger towns, but the average sawmill is so situated 

 that it will take fully a month to get properly organized. This then 

 places at the disposal of the wood-using industries only that lumber 

 now on mill yards. 



Hardwood Eecord most strongly advises that wherever the 

 wood-user is financially able to carry at least a reasonable amount 

 of stock ahead, it would be good business to buy that stock now. 

 Lumbermen are making low prices not merely because of the ab- 

 sence of orders, but in the majority of cases simply because they 

 realize that they must take their loss on goods manufactured at high 

 costs and are anxious to liquidate that stock, establish their loss 

 and restabilize their markets. In other words, they want to get 

 the present period of extreme difficulty over with as soon as possible. 

 For this reason the wood-using plgnt can buy today at an exceed- 

 ingly reasonable, figure. "Where he has established that he can 

 afford to buy stocks of lumber at prices offered the buyer is wise 

 to place his order if he can finance his transaction. 



There is an increasing number of buyers already evidencing their 

 conviction that this policy is correct. Unless this number shows a 

 still further increase the result will be a too concentrated drain on 

 present limited hardwod supplies when factory stocks run out 

 simultaneously. It can readily be seen that if the process of read- 

 justment follows that course in general, the result wUl be defeat of 

 all plans for readjustment. If everyone stays out of the market 

 completely now, waiting to come back in when the rest do, it will 

 mean a repetition of the boom conditions of two years ago. If this 

 is repeated the boomerang will hit a whole lot harder than it did 

 this time. 



The Association of Wood Using Industries 



HAVING FOE TWENTY-SIX YEARS labored as a liaison agent 

 between the hardwood lumber and the wood using industries. 

 Hardwood Record has been watching with approving interest the 

 progress of the organization of the Association of "Wood Using 

 Industries. This approving interest issued from the fact that the 

 association in question was formed for the primary purpose of 

 improving contact between these two highly interdependent indus- 

 tries. Immediate expressions of this purpose are the advocacy of 

 the Snell Forestry Bill and the plan to standardize dimension sizes, 

 in co-operation with the producers of lumber. 



• As a matter of course, it is with the keenest pleasure that 

 Habdwood Record is able to call the attention of its readers to 

 an article appearing elsewhere in this issue which describes the 



aims and functions of the Association of Wood Using Industries, 

 and appeals to the hardwood industry for that measure of interest 

 and co-operation which is the indispensable requisite of success in 

 the new association's aims. The article was written especially for 

 Hardwood Record by E. E. Parsonage, president of the Associa- 

 tion of Wood Using Industries, and, therefore, is as authoritative 

 as it is possible to make it. It should receive the careful considera- 

 tion of all members of both the hardwood producing and the hard- 

 wood consuming industries. 



What Mr. Parsonage has to say relative to the cutting of dimen- 

 sion and the conservation of much of the product of the log that 

 now goes to waste should be read thoughtfully. There are many 

 reasons why this new effort to establish the general manufacture of 

 net dimension stock should succeed, in spite of previous failures. 

 To begin with the association which Mr. Parsonage heads is suffi- 

 ciently representative to carry great weight and force. It is a 

 responsible organization, officered by men of authority and real 

 ability. In the second place conditions are ripe for the introduc- 

 tion of any intelligent plan for wood conservation. Formerly the 

 need was not so pressing for the manufacture of dimension in the 

 first process from the log. Lumber was low in cost and freight 

 rates were cheap. Until recently very high grade stuff could be 

 bought without difficulty. But now the trees that were passed up 

 in those days are the staple of the lumber market. Cheap lumber 

 is gone forever. High grade lumber is increasingly scarce, and low 

 freight rates are a part of the lamented past. 



Aside from these fundamental conditions favorable to net dimen- 

 sion manufacture, there is the comprehensive aspect of the Associa- 

 tion of Wood Using Industries' plan. The association proposes to 

 establish a general market for dimension by standardizing the prin- 

 cipal elements of the dimension requirements of the manufacturers 

 of wood products. Also the association intends to propagandize the 

 idea that net clear dimension is worth more to produde and worth 

 more to buy than the best grades of commercial lumber. It intends 

 also to teach the proper manufacture and grading of dimension, 

 thus eliminating shiftless manufacturing and grading of dimen- 

 sion on the one hand, and an ignorant and suspicious buying policy 

 on the other hand. The hazards of the manufacturer of dimension 

 will be largely eliminated, because it will not be possible for a 

 consumer to reject a dimension order arbitrarily, nor will a can- 

 cellation mean the virtual total loss of the dimension to the manu- 

 facturer, as it has in the past. 



The association is fully alive to the many difficulties, both 

 physical and psychological, which must be surmounted before its 

 plan can be become widely and successfully operative. But the 

 association is prepared to spend a period of years working out its 

 plans and setting it in motion. What it asks from all concerned 

 is full and frank co-operation. Hardwood Record asks, with 

 whatever influence it may have in the trade, that this be given. 

 This will speed the work of the association to its happy consumma- 

 tion as .nothing else can. 



Table of Contents 



REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: 



General Market Conditions 1'-'* 



The Association of Wood Using Industries 16 



SPECIAL ARTICLES: 



Association of Wood Using Industries 17 



Northern Operators Back Publicity Drive 18-19 4 29 



Revising Federal Taxation 20-21 



What Is Good Kiln Drying? 22-24 



Appeal to Railroad Presidents 24-25 



Industrial Council Functions Usefully 26 



Efficiency in the Woodworking Plant 34 & 36 



POWER LOGGING AND LUMBER HANDLING: 



Miscellaneous ^ 



NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL: 



Miscellaneous 27 



CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS: 



Miscellaneous - . .47-48 



Third American Lumber Congress 47 



HARDWOOD NEWS S2-S« 



HARDWOOD MARKET "....' S6-61 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 64-6« 



HARDWOODS FOR SALE 66-69 



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