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B 296 — Seeks Oak Parquet Blocks 



New York, N. Y., Sept. 3. — Kilitor Hardwood 



Record : We would thank you to mail us a list 



of the names o£ firms manulacturing 5/lG" oak 



parquet blocks. The material we want is to be 



paper or canvas backed. , 



The above inquiry is from a large Metro- 

 politan flooring institution. Anyone produc- 

 ing parquet blocks, interested in the inquiry, 

 can have the address by writing this office and 

 referring to B 296. — Editor. 



B 297 — Wants Ugnum- Vitas 

 Detroit. Mich., Sept. :;. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : Can you suggest a place where we 

 can get a piece of clear lignum vitte of short 

 length, -x-i inches in size? Company. 



The above inquirer has been advised that 

 lignum-vitae is not produced in dimension 

 sizes, but the lumber is cut in various thick- 

 nesses from the small logs, of this wood, from 

 which a 2x4 section could be ripped, and that 

 this stock may be secured from C. L. Willey, 

 Eobey street and Blue Island avenue, Chi- 

 cago, or probably froui The Martin-Barriss 

 Company, Cleveland, O., at approximately 

 three-and-a-half cents per pound. — Editor. 



B 298 — Concrete vs. Wood Fence Posts 



Indianapolis, liid., Atiu. 27. — Editor Hard- 

 wood Record ; I wish to acknowledge receipt 

 of the copy of Hardwood Record containing an 

 article on the inadequacy of concrete posts. We 

 have just recently sent out a bulletin asking 

 for information from persons who have had ex- 

 perience with concrete fence posts, and will say 

 that we have received many replies, and every- 

 one has said the concrete post was satisfactory. 

 Everyone praised its use. 



I have observed them in use in many places 

 throughout the state, and in all cases they 

 have proven satisfactory, except in a few in- 

 iustances where they were not properly made. 

 I might refer you to K. 1. Brown, Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., who is purchasing agent for the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad lines west of Pittsburgh. He in- 

 forms me the Pennsylvania Company has not set 

 wood posts for the past two years. I know also 

 where concrete telephone poles are in use and 

 are satisfactory. 



It is our purpose to gather all the informa- 

 tion we can on tliis subject in order to form an 

 mipartial judgment on the subject. 



Charles C. Deam, Sec'y, 

 State Board of Forestry. 



The following letter has been forwarded to 

 Mr. Deam: 



There is no question concerning the ade- 

 quacy of concrete fence posts when they are 

 constructed by experts, but there is a serious 

 deficiency manifested in many quarters with 

 this installation when it is done by farmers 

 and other people equally inexperienced in 

 handling this material. 



About the only criticism I should care to 

 make on your enthusiasm on concrete fence 

 posts would be that naturally you would get 

 into trouble with Sam Burkholder, that dean 

 of Indiana lumbermen, who is president of 

 your board, in trying to supplant good black 

 locust, chestnut or even oak fence posts with 

 concrete. It would almost appeal to me that 

 a state board of forestry should try to edu- 

 cate the farmer and other wood-lot owners 



into growing timber suitable for fence posts, 

 and not try to lead them astray into w'ild 

 goose chases for wood substitutes. — Editor. 



B 299 — Desires "American Forest Trees" 

 Articles 



Forest Service, Washington, D. C, Aug. 26. — 

 Editor Hardwood Record ; Please advise if it 

 is possible for me to secure a reprint of the 

 series of papers entitled American Forest Trees 

 which have appeared in Haisdwood Record dur- 

 ing the last seven years. W. H. Lamr. 



The writer of the above letter has been 

 advised that the series of articles entitled 

 ' ' American Forest Trees ' ' are now being 

 revised and put into form for book publica- 

 tion. The book will probably appear about 

 .Ian. 1 next in an elaborate volume, which 

 will cover every type of commercial tree 

 growing in the United States, and the text 

 will involve not only the range of growth and 

 botany of the various specimens, but also a 

 description of the physics of the several 

 woods and their present and prospective 

 utility. 



The work is to be illustrated by consider- 

 ably more than one hundred halftone illustra- 

 tions made from photographs of virgin forest 

 tree t.ypes, many other pictures of leaf forms, 

 etc., and will be handsomely printed on plate 

 paper. — Editor. 



B 300— Has Photograpli of Wrecked Steel 

 Freight Car 



Chichester, N. Y.. Aug. 21. — ICditor Hardwood 

 Record : I have some good photographs of 

 wrecked steel freight cars. Do you think you 

 could use any of them in Hardwood Record! 

 If so, kindly let me know. J. Bei.mo.nte. 



The writer of the above letter has been ad- 

 vised that wrecked steel freight cars are no 

 curiosity. All one has to do to see hundreds 

 of them is to visit the cripple tracks of any 

 railroad in America which has ever bought 

 any of these cars. — Editor. 



B 301 — Measurement of Thin Lumber 



Cincinnati. O.. .\ug. 21. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : We have an inquiry regarding face 



measure of lumber thinner than one inch. The 

 firm inquiring states that one of its customers 

 sent an order for % inch lumber, which was in 

 answer to quotations made by them on face 

 mea.sure. After the car was loaded and en 

 route, the party cancelled the order, claiming 

 that he intended to pay for the stock on the 

 actual contents — in other words, %-lnch lum- 

 ber. 



Would like to have you advise if you know 

 of any court decision in this matter and oblige. 

 H. G. Hoover, Assistant Secretary. 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



The writer has been advised that Hard- 

 wood Record has no record of any legal de- 

 cision, but ohe custom of the trade estab- 

 lished for many years is that all lumber less 

 than one inch in thickness shall be measured 

 and tallied on a face measurement basis. 

 This is the universal custom of the trade, and 

 as such would carry extreme weight in any 

 case that was presented at court. — Editor. 



B 302 — Liverpool String vs. Hoppus Meas- 

 urement 



Kansas City, Mo.. Aug. l.S. — Editor Hard- 

 wood Record : Will you kindly explain to me 

 the difference between Liverpool string measure 

 and Hoppus string measure? These systems of 

 log measurement are supposed to be employed 

 in the Liverpool market. . 



Through the courtesy of Hardwood Eec- 

 ORD's Liverpool representative, the above in- 

 quirer has been advised that both the Liver- 

 pool string measure and Hoppus string meas- 

 ure use the divisor 144. The divisor 113, 

 although mathematically correct, is not com- 

 mercially used anywhere in the United King- 

 dom. 



The difference between Hoppus and Liver- 

 pool string measure is that Hoppus employs 

 quarter inches in girth, half feet in length, 

 and inches in the cubical contents ; whereas 

 Liverpool string measure allows only inches 

 and half-inches in the quarter girth, no half 

 feet in lengths and only feet and half feet in 

 the cubical contents. That is to say a log 

 measuring 14%" girth would be called 14%" 

 by Liverpool string measure, and measuring 

 14' 11" in length would be called 14' 0", and 

 a log with a contents of 14' 9" would be 

 called 141/2' cube. — Editor. 



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'News Miscellany 



Meeting of Exporters 



Export lumbermen of Memphis held a meeting 

 Sept. 6 to take action in regard to the roads 

 west of the Mississippi river refusing to issue 

 through bills of lading. Many of the lumber- 

 men are of the opinion that if these rules be- 

 i ome effective permanently it will eliminate them 

 Irom the export business. While the roads east 

 of the river have not as yet taken action in re- 

 gard, to the matter, it is understood that they 

 will follow the actions of the western roads. 



It was voted at the meeting that the matter 

 be made a subject of formal complaint before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. The com- 

 plaint will be filed through the Lumbermen's 

 Trafhc Bureau of Memphis, a new traflic bureau 

 consisting of practically every big lumherman in 

 Memiihis and vicinity. 



John It. Walker, well-known attorney and rate 



expert at Washington, will present the ease be- 

 fore the commission. J. H. Townsend, formerly 

 traffic manager of the Lumbermen's Bureau at 

 Washington, has been retained to take charge of 

 the new organization. 



Forest Students Tour the West 



The students of the Biltmore Forest School 

 recently made an extensive tour through the 

 Korth and the West for the purpose of observ- 

 ing the actual working of mill, factory and log- 

 ging operations. The principal places visited 

 were the centers of large works. The tour be- 

 gan at Cadillac, Mich., where the plants of the 

 Cummer-Diggins Company and of Cobbs & 

 Mitchell, Inc., were visited, also the works of 

 the Cadillac Veneer Company, Cadillac Handle 

 Company and Cadillac Chair Company. Lectures 

 were there delivered to the students by Dr. 

 Hermann von Schrenk, K. S. Kellogg, Dr. C. A. 



