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at the principal ports, where the leading trade bodies and representative 

 business men will be conferred with. The steamer has been chartered by 

 the Fidelity Trust Company of Baltimore, but the opportunities of the trip 

 will be available to represetnative business men from all over the coun- 

 try. The Finland is to leave New York .January 27 and Baltimore two 

 days later, going down the east coast and returning along the west 

 coast via the Panama canal some time in April. The entire distance 

 steamed will be about IG.OOO miles. The establishment of branch banks 

 and other credit agencies will be undertaken, and it is expected that the 

 «xports to South America will be greatly stimulated as a result of the 

 trip. Baltimore is already a large shipper of lumber to South .Vmerica, 

 and it is thought that these shipments can be greatly added to. There 

 are also excellent chances of introducing factory products of various 

 Icinds. 



Indian Teakwood 



The valuable teakwood of British India was little used for export 

 purposes prior to 1807. but that year it began to take its place as wood 

 for shipbuilding. Its price was then about sixty-flve dollars a thousand 

 feet at export points. Its value has steadil.v increased, and likewise the 

 ■quantity exported. In 1913 the average price was $106 per thousand 

 feet, and the value of that year's exports was ■1!.'). 017. 230. Most of it 

 went to Knglish shipyards. The home demand in India has always been 

 large. The supply is becoming scarce, and large plantings have been 

 made to provide for the future. It is valuable for furniture and also 

 for house finish. 



Teak owes its value chiefly to its great durability, due to its large 

 content of resin, which fills up the pores and resists the action of water. 

 When fresh it will not float, but when seasoned floats easily. The oil 

 In the wood prevents its getting waterlogged, and seems also to safe- 

 guard it against timber-boring insects. It does not rust iron when 

 ■worked up with it. It is used for carving, the noted carved kyaungs or 

 monasteries of Burma being prominent in almost every village of any 

 importance. Teakwood is rather coarse grained, greasy to the touch, 

 and has an offensive odor, sotuethin.i; like tliat of decaying shoe leather. 



We Are Flattered 



It is indeed a distinction to have one's name appear in the "greatest 

 lumber journal on earth," and it is an almost inconceivable distinction 

 to have one's writings quoted in this notable publication. 



Hardwood Record modestly acknowledges this distinction after having 

 read an item in the greatest lumber newspaper on earth entitled "Get 

 Back to Business — Urged." The item quoted is taken from a letter ad- 

 ■dressed by our modest selves to a number of lumbermen friends request- 

 ing that they bring pressure to bear on the papers which they read regu- 

 larly, aiming toward at least a reduction in prominence of alleged 

 war news. Probably through a misunderstanding as to the original 

 source of the appeal, the greatest lumber journal on earth printed this 

 little Item. 



May we modestly urge that the perusal of our own unassuming columns 

 might occasionally give a helpful suggestion even to "grandfather" (some- 

 •one has said grandmother) ? 



Contract Comes to Michigan 

 A Canadian builder recently secured a contract at .$100,000 for the 

 carpentry on a new school house in that country, and he found that he 

 •could save money by subletting the doors, sash, and frames to a Michigan 

 firm. It was shown that the doors, after the duty had been paid, cost 

 less than the price at which they could be manufactured in Canada. 



Coloring Growing Wood 

 A correspondent of an English lumber journal writing from India 

 •describes an experiment in coloring artiticially the wood of trees while 

 In a growing state. By running a system of boreholes right through the 

 trunk, stopping one end with cork, and introducing a dye, the tree may, 

 It is asserted, be made to absorb the coloring matter. Thus the aniline 

 ■dyes of malachite green and methylene blue colored birch evenly, and 

 •eosin veined the wood with red. As the darker shades in wood have a 

 higher value than the lighter, it is considered possible that by impreg- 

 nating, for instance, a tannin-free wood like birch or maple with a tannin 

 solution during growth, it would later be easy to give these woods a 

 rich dark tint similar to that of the oak, which is rich in tannin, by 

 means of treating it with ammonia under pressure. 



Southern Timber Tables 



Haedwood Record is in receipt of an interesting and concise pamphlet 

 with the above caption, which describes timber tables for soufuern white 

 cedar, southern pine and southern Appalachian timber. The booklet is 

 published I>y Howard E. Krinbili of New Bern. N. C. and the tables are 

 a result of his own investigations and actual woods experience. Mr. 

 Krinl)ill has become well known as a timber statistician and has done 

 ■quite a little research work in this direction. 



Beside the table notations, this book gives some helpful suggestions 

 for solving various problems which confront those interested in timber- 

 lands. For iustance. he hinges the financial problems mainly on compu- 

 tations with the number 71. lie says "many problems in forest finance 

 may be solved mentally by remembering that the investment douliles as 

 soon as rate of interest or increment times number of years equals 71. 

 In other words, he gives as a formula the following : Seventy-one over 

 the number of years equals percentage, and si'venty-one over percentage 

 •oquals the number of years. 



Kentucky Hardwoods 



5 Cars 1" No. 1 Common Poplar 

 2 Cars li/^" No. 1 Common Poplar 



2 Cars 1" No. 2 "A" Common Poplar 

 5 Cars 1" Log Run 8' Oak 



3 Cars 1" Common and Better Wormy Oak 

 3 Cars 1" No. 1 Common Chestnut 



2 Cars IVn" No. 1 Common Chestnut 

 5 Cars 1^4" SoJnd Wormy Chestnut 



2 Cars 1%" Sound Wormy Chestnut 



3 Cars lyi" Log Run Hard Maple 

 2 Cars 2" Log Run Hard Maple 



4 Cars 2" Log Run Beech 



Duskirk rvutledge Lumber v^o. 



BAND MILLS: 



LEXINGTON, KY. 



Quicksand, Ky., Straight Creel<, Ky. 



John G. Lockhart Lumber Co. 



Sheboygan, Wisconsin 



BIRCH LUMBER We have the fol- 



lowing Log Run 



Birch all 10 foot and Longer. 

 250,000' 5/4" No. 2 & Better, 10' & Longer 

 250.000' 6/4" No. 2 & Better, 10' & Longer 

 250,000' 8/4" No. 2 & Better, 10' & Longer 



This stock is ready for shipment and we will sell it 



in carload lots or all together. 

 KINDLY SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES FOR 

 BIRCH OR ANYTHING IN NORTHERN 

 HARDWOODS. 



'^THE&ERFrq 

 BAND SAWN SOUTHER 



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Dermott Land and Lumber Company 



DERMOTT, ARK. 



