February 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Association of Wood Using Industries 



More Thorough Utilization of the Product of the Log Is Sought by Organization 

 Through Co-Operation Between the Hardwood Producing and 



Consuming Industries 



By E. E. Parsonage, Moline, III. 



President of The Association of Wood Using Industries 



I oaunot conceive of any more important or far-reaching benefits 

 to industries and the public as well, than conserving and utilizing 

 our remaining forests to the very best advantage. 



The Association of Wood Using Industries was formed with the 

 specific idea of performing definite service and acting as a point of 

 contact between the wood producing and the wood using industries. 



There are upwards of thirty different individual associations of 

 wood using industries who view with alarm the rapidly decreasing 

 forest products, and believe that it is high time to initiate an intensive 

 campaign for the education of both the lumber manufacturers and 

 the wood using industry — this to the end that the limit of economy 

 may be practiced both in the cutting of the log and the fabricating 

 of the wood stock. 



Thousands of factories now using hardwood plank do not realize 

 that in cutting tliis plank, even though the smaller sizes of dimensions 

 are taken out of the plank, there is a loss amounting to a minimum 

 of from 30 to 40 percent. 



From the sawmill standpoint there is hardly 

 a hardwood manufacturer who would not be 

 able to cut a percentage of his product into 

 dimension stock of various sizes, a large part 

 of it, which now goesinto the waste pile, if, 

 he were assured of an adequate market. 



It is true that many a hardwood mill man- 

 ager has had a sad experience in his attempt 

 to saw dimension stock. He has accumulated 

 a few cars and then suffered a cuUage upon de- 

 livery of the material that discouraged him 

 from ever attempting to anticipate dimension 

 stock needs. 



Misconception Endures 



One idea he has carried since that experi- 

 ence, is that his customer was unfair in the 

 cuUage, and in many cases literally robbed 

 him, etc. 



The facts are, in 99 out of 100 cases the 

 dimension stock was poorly or incorrectly 

 sawn, the sizes were not regular nor adequate, 

 and a large part of the shipment was of very 

 little use to the factory which purchased it. 



To my mind what is needed is practical 

 education by the injection of trained dimension stock users coming 

 into direct contact with the sawyer and the dimension mill superin- 

 tendent at the saw mill. 



At a conference I had a few weeks since with Colonei 'UTe'eiey, Chief 

 Forester of the United States, in connection with additional practical 

 activities of the Forest Products Laboratories of Madison, Wiscon- 

 sin, Colonel Greeley indicated he was intensely interested in an edu- 

 cational work that would have for its object the conservation of our 

 forests and wood stock. I believe he is ready and anxious to furnish 

 an additional link between the saw mill and the wood using in- 

 dustry. 



I would suggest that conferences be arranged between the proper 

 ofSeials of the Association of Wood Using Industries and the hard- 

 wood lumber associations, that will have for their effect concrete 

 plans covering a program of educational work along the above 

 lines. 



ElfiuQ 



E. E. Parsonage 



Problems of Co-operation 



In order that you may understand more thoroughly the aims and 

 purposes of this Association of Wood Using Industries I would call 

 attention to the following specific problems of co-operation: 



1. This Association is formed and made up by membership of 

 all associations of wood using industries comprising fabricators and 

 convertors of wood products. 4 



2. This Association stands for and actively supports adequate 

 national and state legislation that has for its object a permanent 

 reforestation program, i. e., to insure a permanent supply of wood 

 stock for the above mentionel industries. This essentially calls for 

 a policy that will insure the replanting of waste lands, not suitable 

 for agricultural purposes, in wood producing trees. 



3. The Association aims to aid in a logical and adequate program 

 covering forest fire protection. 



4. This Association aspires to become a point of contact and 



clearing house between the lumber producer 

 and the consumer, thereby forming a bond of 

 cooperation between the two elements. It is 

 becoming more essential each day that proper 

 educational plans be initiated that will have 

 for their effect the better and more adequate 

 utilization of our present existing wood stock 

 sujiply. In detail this means the education of 

 the wood producer in order that he may learn 

 the needs of the consumer in various wood 

 using industries and in turn the education of 

 the wood user to properly handle, cure and 

 fabricate the products of the saw mills, a good 

 [lortion of which today goes to the scrap pile. 

 iS. The Association's activities will be 

 strenuously used to bring about a study of 

 forest taxation whereby the National Govern- 

 ment and States may devise tax laws which 

 will encourage, not only the conservation of 

 timber but the growing of additional timber. 

 This legislation should aim to make it com- 

 mercially possible for the state, corporation 

 or individual to hold such timber lands or 

 plant waste lands until the tract is arvailable 

 for commercial logging. 



0. This Association expects to function 

 in aiding in the acquisition of waste lands by exchange of land or 

 timber when clearly in the public interest, also in authorizing the 

 addition to national forests of lands now in other forms of govern- 

 ment ownership, which may be found chiefly suitable for permanent 

 forest production. 



7. This Association approves and is on record that all possible 

 effort be made to encourage the studies and experiments in forest 

 reproduction, wood utilization, timber tests, wood preservation and 

 the development of by-products — which work is carried on through 

 the activities of the National Forest Products Laboratory of Madi- 

 son, Wisconsin. 



8. The research possibilities of this Laboratory through the agency 

 of this Association and its value to industry will be brought to the 

 direct attention and benefit of individual wood using factories. 



9. In the final analysis the Association of Wood Using Industries 

 gives an opportunity for centi-alized energy in covering problems com- 

 mon to wood users and leaves intact the work of individual asso- 

 ciations. 



