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Tlif .lc\rUi|im'iit <>t riitiiiv :iii.i 



in nvfiil yi'ii'K tliiit tlic «ii«iiii; liriim li nl ihi- iii.|ii-li\, lliniij;! i>i 



thr ulilf-t, Im.o Ufii ovrr!>luii|i>»i->l iiinl 1111^111 In- |>re!iuiii<>i| tu liiivi- Im-i-ii 

 li»iiiK urouml. 1 1 N nut li>siiit;. luiwovi-r, for Miwi-d vi-iiwr toiliiy i- 

 Wl■•4•■^| |ito<liirt of III) ill point of i|iiiility Imviiiii-i- it is iiliNolutely fri'i- 



<iin |Ih> rii|itiiriii)( of t!i>- Kniiii i-niitiMl nt tinii-H in cutting:, an<l ulioii 



i-tlio t iH in n|>|H'nninri> ami fiirt tin- KHiiie w .xoliil liiinlH-r. 



Tlic !Miw »»!• one of tlii' first Vfiiivr niakiii^ nincliin<>>t. Knini-ll. 

 Ixi iit rt'nily tlii< father of the prcrfiil ilay iti'lustry, iiiv<-ntt>il llii> lir^•t 

 ' iKvr f>aWN Hiiil instnlitnl a plant in tli<> Milnirlix of Loiulon sonit- tiiiK' 

 . tnifit IHIHI anil ISII'i. At that time In- lia<l M>|;niont snUH of JarKc 



r. Olio ilescriptiun ki^'**^ tluMii as niiir fcpt in ilianietcr. lie mihoI 

 M'iKvr froui rusrnooil ami ninlioi;any lo^rs or lliU-hra ami proiliircil 

 .■•ulMtniitinlly tin- >ainf kimi of a |iroilui't tlint we have toilay. It was 

 veneer of this ^•ln^s that entereil the fine caliinet work of that periml 

 :ini| Inter ivhs ll^el| in making; fine pianos ami cnliinet work in this 

 . .■iiiitry. 



Slieinj; was ileveloped alioiit the same time, ami then i-aiiii> the 

 • •tary veneer mai-hine, «hifh has in some respects overshmloweil utlier 

 Iminches of the imiiistry, espe<-inlly in ipiantity. However, while the 

 rotary ninehine lias l>een iloini; liic things in the way of ((Uanlity ami 

 while the sliriiiK of veiio'r has rontinueil to ilevelop Ixith in iiiuu- 

 nitmle ami qiinlity, the sawing of veneer has also steadily projjresseii. 



It is iliflirnlt to get at the exaet relative sizes of the ilifferent 

 lininehes of the veni-er imlustry. The Forest Serviee, whieli colleits 

 stntistirs ami makes reports on the imiiii'try yearly, iloes not always 

 ;;ive ^epnrate figures for the different kimls. In 19(»!) this work w.ns 

 • lone liy the Bureau of the Census, ami more specific tletnils were given. 

 In the report for that year the three jirocesses of veneer making were 

 inentioneil. By the rotary cutting process 85.2 per cent of the logs 

 were cut in IPOS, ami ST." per leiit in IHOK. Taking the twelve prin- 

 cipal ilonio^tic wooils in the point of <iHantity, about PO per cent of 

 them were cut on the rotary machine, liut in the matter of reil gum. 

 the leailing wood, i>'t per cent was rotary cut, nml perhaps the same 

 holds true as to eottonwooil, birch and basswood. Sixty-five jpcr cent 

 of the oak made into veneer was either saweil or sliced, and of Die 

 inahognny 49 ]H>r cent. 



During the census year 1909, 4.j,n4J,nOO feet of flitches and logs 

 were worked into veneer by sawing nml slicing, but there are no 

 figures to show just how much of this was sawed and h >w niucli was 

 sliced. Veneer mills are sometimes operate<l in connection with saw- 

 mills and .>'ometimi>s separately. 



The standard thickness in quartered oak veiirer runs Iroiii 1/211 to 

 1/16 inch. This of itself ex]dains the necessity of more accuracy and 

 finer manipulation than obtains in any ordinary sawmill. ,liist a 

 little shake, or shifting of the carriage, or a little crowding endways 

 of the saw mandrel, and a 1/20 inch lioanl will be cut in two in ;i 

 twinkling. End play must be guardeil against in both carriage and 

 "aw mandrel; the saw must run true and lie very lightly and evenly 

 ■ t. It must be kept filed keen and not crowded in its work. And, 

 • course, the blades must l)e made as thin as practicable to reduce the 

 ■wistc in sawdust. That is why they are made in segmcnt^i and 

 Minunted on discs, and even the segment-s are ground tapering so that 

 the cutting points are as thin as it is practicable to run them. 



While the quartereil oak business has always lieen the most jiromi- 

 nent feature of sawed veneer, there is ap|iarently an opportunity tn 

 use veneer saws in connection with sawmilling operations to do a 

 much greater amount in plain sawing than has been done heretofore. 

 The veneer saw is a good machine with which to make thin oak for 

 |)anel stock. There is other plain sawing that may have more possi- 

 bilities than have been developed. The writer recalls a mill he visited 

 several years ago where thin poplar lumber was being made with 

 veneer saws, the mill saw simply flitching the logs and the veneer saws 

 making them into thin lumber, which was a smoother product than 

 would have been made on the mill saws ami was made with less loss 

 in kerf. 



This is a point where the veneer saw and the moilern resaw come 



\ciy light kerf; an. I ulu'ii thiy are in 

 properly, they <lu remarkably good i 

 greater s|MM'd than is cimtomnry on vc 

 Whether one uses veneer kiiwn or ris 

 slock should lie sjiwisl green. .No proi 



lamlx and arc kept 

 ami, as a rule, do it 

 sawh. 



in making thin IninlM-r, 

 or treatment is retuiircil 



prepare timlier for rawing on the vei r machine. It is taken fresh 



from the sawmill nml work on it comnicnceil. If it is Inid a»i'l<', 

 however, and alloweil to ilry, it caus«'s face-chwks and thi>w iiijni • 

 the fiist sliwt or two. It is found, also, that veneer from partly m .-i 

 roneil Hitch will warp and cluvk more tliaii that from gri*<Mi lumlH-r 

 because it has ]iartly drieil nut and n iiinllitmie of strains hnve lieen 

 .-et up in the timber. 



If Hitches can not be worked up immediately and must In* cnrrieil 

 in stock, one should hnve sheils to protect them from the sun. The 

 lust w;iy is to o|)erate a veneer mill in connection with a wiwmill, or 

 ii'verse the order and have a sawmill to du the tlitchiiig for the venwr 

 mill so that the raw material can be piirchascl in the h>g and 

 Hitched as needed. 



There are ruweil veneer plants, however, operating snccersfully whiih 

 buy llitches instead of logs, which reduces the amount of capital re 

 ijiiired for the original e(|uipiiieiit, but increases somewhat the necei-sity 

 for care anil watchfulnei-s in buying raw materials to have enough 

 nimiug all the time to run steailily ami yet not gel an accumulation 

 orate iM-fore using. 



that 



ill drv out and 



H. (). 



Time for Patience 



There come timer- in life iiiiw an<l tlicn. Iiotli in the iii<livi<liial ami 

 the business life, when patience is about the best panacea that can be 

 prescribed. It is not a cure-nil, but it is a mighty good thing to 

 have — so good, in fact, that the man who can have patience not only 

 saves himself a lot of worry but he will get through trying times in 

 better shape. 



There is a natural .lisposition to grumble when things go wrong 

 and to blame it on everything from national politics to next-<loor 

 neighbors, to find more or less fault with everyboily concerned and 

 I'very branch of businei'S, and it is a peculiar fact that the average 

 business man has more trouble through la<'k of jiaticnci- than through 

 .•iny other one source. 



It is lack of patience fre<|Uently that causes price cutting and the 

 tiade wars incident to dull periods-of tr.'ule like we have been going 

 through lately. Men become impatient to move .stock and they get 

 suspicious that the other fellow is hogging the .job and underbidding 

 them in some way, and by and by they lose p:itience and along with 

 it the better jiart of discretion, and go <hi the warpath gunning for 

 business with the kind of prices that will get it. 



We see things of this kind on all sides of us every time there is a 

 business depression and not enough trade to go around. There has 

 been a full share of it this summer, and as far as the grumbling and. 

 fretting and iiriee-cutting are concerned, it has not resulted in in- 

 creasing the general volume of business a particle. The actual result 

 of it all is the sacrificing of what product is sold at too low a price, 

 when in fact to come out on the right side of his ledger a man nee<Ls 

 more for his product when a smaller voluinc of it is being said than 

 when a large vohinie is moving. 



Therefore nothing in the way of good results comes from a lack 

 of patience, and the actual returns are in the form of price-cutting 

 during dull periods and disorder ami disorganizjition generally. After 

 we have passed through such a |ieriod it can Im- plainly seen, on look- 

 ing back, that everybody would have been better off if he had just 

 held tightly to his stock and prices. 



Therefore while it may soumi like telling a man to keep cool in the 

 midst of a hot season, it is good logic just the same to argue that we 

 should keep a fair stock of patience with us continually as a sort of 

 ]>anacea for business ills; and when times of trying depression are 

 upon us we should take the patience freely and strive to eliminate 

 grundiling and fretting and other Irritating practices. 



