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Studying American Lumbering 



During the past two or three months .> representative of the 

 forest service of India, F. A. Leete. h.., been in the United States 

 studying methods of lumbering and .icquamting himself with our 

 logging and sawmill machinery and drykiln plants. He spent 

 some time on the Pacific Coast, then visited the Forest Products 

 laboratory at Madison, Wis., spent <i short time in Chicago, and 

 will visit the yellow pine regions of the South and about August I 

 he expects to sail for England and pl.ms to reach India about De 

 cember, after an absence of two years spent in studying the lumber 

 business in various part, of the world. He has been connected 

 with the forest work of India for twenty-five years, first in Northern 

 India near the southern base of the Himalaya mountains and dur- 

 ing the past twelve years in Burma, with headquarters at Rangoon. 



It is his purpose to introduce into India improved methods and 

 machinery so far as practicable and he has made a special effort 

 to investigate machinery with a view to installing plants after 

 reaching home. Though his visit has been as a representative of 

 the government of India, it is his purpose to place at the disposal 

 of private companies the information gathered on the trip. He 

 is interested in lines other than logging and sawmilling, and has 

 made a study of cooperage, box making, and veneer machinery, as 

 well as dry-kiln methods and plants. He is particularly impressed 

 with the belief that an opening exists in his country for veneer 

 enterprises. Little veneer is now being cut in India though suit- 

 able timber is abundant. 



The annual cut of lumber in the city of Rangoon totals -400, 

 000.000 feet, board measure, mostly teak, which is rafted hundreds 

 of miles down the river before reaching the sawmills. There is 

 plenty of timber in that country, though it is necessary to go far 

 back into the interior to get it. 



The Truth About the Supply of Mahogany 



This article is written for the purpose of correcting an erro- 

 neous impression that appears to have gained currency that 

 mahogany lumber is no longer available for commercial purposes. 



The fact is only about thirty per cent of the supply of mahogany 

 lumber is required for government purposes. The remaining 

 seventy per cent consists of plain and figured F .'^ S of good widths 

 and lengths. No. 1 common, No. 2 common, shorts, etc., and is 

 available for the commercial trade. 



All indications point to an ample supply of mahogany for com- 

 mercial purposes for the balance of the calendar year 1918. 



It is also permissible to manufacture highly figured mahogany 

 logs into veneer, and the quantity of such stock now available is 

 sufficient to take care of the present trade requirements. 



The Boersen-Zeitung of Berlin states that airplane woods have 

 become so scarce that it is a serious problem how the factories are 

 to be kept going. Wood that was formerly rejected on account 

 of defects is now used. When obtainable at all. ash costs $225 

 a thousand feet in the log. which of course includes good, bad. 

 and indifferent, and even as poor a wood as alder costs $110. 

 For some time it has been apparent, from inspection of captured 

 airplanes, that the Germans were using inferior wood in their 

 construction. 



Hornet nest is sometimes cited as an example of veneer be- 

 cause it is a thin sheet of wood; but. strictly speaking, it is not 

 veneer, but a fiber board, because it is composed of minute pieces 

 of wood pressed and glued in a sheet, while veneer is all one 

 piece. Nevertheless, the hornet is a pretty competent manufac- 

 turer of thin wooden sheets, and it is remarkable that it was 

 only about 200 years ago that the discovery was made that hornet 

 nest is wood, though men had seen the nests and had been stung 

 by the manufacturers since time out of mind. 



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