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the Proctor dryer is in operation, with fac- 

 simile letters or testimo^ials showing the esteem 

 in which it is held by many well known veneer 

 manufacturers. The plants of the Schoenlau- 

 Kukkuck Trunk Top & Veneer Company, St. 

 Louis : the Williamson Veneer Company, Balti- 

 more ; the Wilts Veneer Company, Plymouth, N. 

 C. ; the Roberts & Connor Company, New Al- 

 bany. Ind., and others are shown, as are also 

 photographs of the dryer in operation in yarious 

 other factories. 



The company will gladly supply one of these 

 handsome booklets to anyone interested in 

 veneer production. 



New Cincinnati Company. 

 The Bay Poplar Lumber Company of this city, 

 with a capital stock of .floO.OOO. was incor- 

 porated last week by George LTnnewehr, William 

 .J. Afsprung, Alfred n. Cohen, .\lfred Mack, 

 Ellas n. Phillips and Godfrey J. Phillips. The 

 company has acquired in fee a large tract of 

 timber lauds in southern Alabama, estimated to 

 contain over 100,000.000 feet of timber. Three 

 large vencor mills will be erected near Mobile 

 and others will follow as necessity requires. 

 The majority of the timber is cypress and 

 poplar with a sprinkle of other hardwoods. All 

 the lumber turned out by the new company will 

 be shipped directly from the south to its des- 

 tination. Offices will be established in Cincin- 

 nati, but Mr. Cohen states that it is not likely 

 that the company will locate lumber yards here. 

 Frank Unnewebr, now president of the Unne- 

 wehr Lumber Company, will probably be se- 

 lected as head of the new company. 



Starts Improved Plant. 

 The hardwood lumber and veneer mill of 

 Charles Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind., which was 

 shut down for thirty days, has opened again 

 with much improved facilities in the way of 

 power. Machinists have been working for sev- 

 eral weeks installing a new boiler plant, which 

 is one of the finest in the state. Three large 

 boilers are enclosed in brick and concrete, and 

 the tall stack rests upon a concrete foundation, 

 while the rest of the plant is up-to-date in every 

 particular and equipped to furnish all the power 

 necessary should the works be considerably en- 

 larged at any time. Mr. Barnaby has a large 

 supply of fine Indiana oak logs on hand with 

 the commencement of operations in his practi- 

 cally new plant. 



Death of Prominent Indiana Lumterman. 



Seth W. Cummins, a well known lumber mon- 

 ufacturer and mill owner of Indiana, died at 

 his home in Petersburg, Monday evening, June 

 24, from in.1uries received in a runaway Sunday 

 morning. His death was very unexpected, as 

 it was thought his injuries were not of a serious 

 nature. 



The deceased was born in Delaware county, 

 Ohio, July 26, 1843, thus he was nearly sixty- 

 two years of age. The funeral services were 

 conducted at the home Tuesday at 9 :30 a. m. 

 under the auspices of the G. A. R., of which 

 he was a' member, having served his country as 

 a true Indiana soldier in the Seventy-fourth 

 regiment. The remains were taken to his old 

 home, Columbus City, Ind., for burial. Besides 

 a host of friends to mourn his loss Mr. Cummins 

 leaves a devoted wife, one daughter and four 

 sons. 



Mr. Cummins was a pioneer sawmill and 

 lumberman, having been actively engaged in the 

 manufacture of lumber at different points in 

 this state before he came here.' five years ago, 

 and purchased the Deering Brothers' mill. He 

 was a very live and energetic business man and 

 an honorable, upright citizen. He made lots of 

 friends here and was well known throughout 

 his section of the state, for be drove far and 

 wide in pursuit of timber, while his son and 

 partner, G. L. Cummins, looked after the mill 



and yard interests. He bought a tract of 

 timber at Sebree,- Ky., and operated the mill 

 plant there until about the end of 1906. when 

 he sold out his interests. He recently pur- 

 chased a large tract of timber land in Arkan- 

 sas and was perfecting arrangements to oper- 

 ate a sawmill plant at Stuttgart early this fall. 

 Mr. Cummins was a man who enjoyed life and 

 seemed much younger than he was. Confidence 

 in himself and the firm belief in a bright future 

 for the lumber business held this earnest worker 

 to his cause and his achievements bear ample 

 witness to the infallibility of his foresight and 

 judgment. In the passing of this lumberman a 

 shock is sustained by those closely allied to him 

 which causes the deepest sorrow and a sense of 

 irretrievable loss to his family and the com- 

 munity at large. 



Marriage of Popular Lumberman. 



Miss Mary E. Birge ami Henry Ballou were 

 married recently at the home of the bride's 

 mother in Franklin, Pa. They will reside in Mr. 

 Ballou's handsome home at Cadillac. Miss 

 Birge was formerly employed in the State Sav- 

 ings bank, while Mr. Ballou is superintendent 

 for Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., the great Cadillac 

 lumber and maple flooring concern. He is one 



HENRY BALLOU, CADILLAC, JIICH. 



of the best known and best liked lumbermen of 

 the north country, and is active in association 

 affairs, being one of the prime movers in the 

 organization of the Michigan Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association ; he is also prominent in 

 Cadillac banking circles. Mr. Ballou's many 

 friends and associates in the trade are extend- 

 ing him congratulations, in which the Hardwood 

 Record heartily joins. 



Handbook of the Trees. 



A publication designed to meet the wants alike 

 of the amateur observer of trees, the lumberman 

 and the technical botanist has just been placed 

 upon the market by its author, Romeyn B. 

 Hough, B. A., of Lowville, N. Y., entitled 

 "Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States 

 and Canada." To accomplish this task, gener- 

 ally considered quite impossible, the camera has 

 been depended upon to portray characters, and 

 after a vast amount of experiment and field 

 work, a series of illustrations has been per- 

 fected which fully meets the requirements. By 

 their aid even a bright school child may know 

 the trees, without reading a word, save the 

 name, and yet the technical botanist finds in 

 them points of ecjual interest 



The valu.- of the work lies in its accuracy 

 and completeness. Its illustrations cover the 

 field in the following particulars : 



Leaves and fruits are photographed against a 

 measured background (a unique plan original 

 with the author) by which the natural size of 

 all parts of the objects is at once apparent. 

 The specimens were photographed while fresh — 

 even before their wilting — and minute charac- 

 ters, as nature of surface, etc.. are shown with 

 a distinctness of detail which is remarkable. 



Leafless twigs in winter illustrate a method 

 by which the trees may be determined while 

 leafless, a display of characters being shown 

 which is a revelation to those who have thought 

 it possible to identify trees only in summer. 

 The twigs, generally showing a full season's 

 growth, were photographed while fresh, and 

 magnification resorted to when necessary to give 

 prominence to minute details, but natural size 

 is always apparent. 



Typical barks of trees, as they are found in 

 field or forest, are shown with natural environ- 

 ment, a 1-foot rule being displayed to indicate 

 size. They show the characters by which the 

 woodman knows the trees. 



Wood structure of at least one species of each 

 genus is shown by a series of photo-micrographs 

 of transverse sections magnified fifteen diame- 

 ters. This interesting feature has been added 

 to furnish a means of identifying woods by com- 

 parison, with the aid of a simple magnifier. It 

 is of special value to the woodworker, lumber 

 dealer and all who have to do with woods, and 

 who desire a reliable means of identifying same, 

 as well as to the nature student. 



Maps indicating distributions of the various 

 trees carry out the idea of making the work as 

 graphic as possible and these, prepared with 

 great care and based upon all available sources 

 lit information, indicate at a glance the area of 

 country over which a tree grows. 



The region covered by the Handbook is that 

 lying north of the northern boundaries of North 

 Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma 

 and east of the Rocky mountains, extending 

 southward in the Appalachian region to north- 

 ern Alabama and Georgia. The work represents 

 several years of study, field work and experi- 

 ment. Nothing but the author's love of the 

 subject and his peculiar vocation could have 

 enabled him to prosecute the work with such 

 care and publish results in so neat a volume at 

 the price at which it is offered. As he is re- 

 quired to be much in the field, gathering the 

 specimens used in the publishing of bis won- 

 derful volumes of American Woods — this being 

 a duty which he makes peculiarly his own, in 

 order to be positive of authenticities — he has 

 liad unusual opportunity for consummating the 

 elaborate plan of the Handbook. Its illustra- 

 tions represent C90 negatives, all made on ac- 

 count of scientific value, and its maps 191 line- 

 engravings. 



The book in green buckram binding costs $8, 

 express prepaid ; in half morocco, $10. 



Forestry at lUichigan Agricultural College. 



This department of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College was established by the state board in 

 1902. and since that time it has been in opera- 

 tion and has made rapid and substantial prog- 

 ress. 



It is one of the four 4-year courses offered 

 by the college and has enjoyed popularity from 

 its beginning. 



The opportunities for the study of forestry 

 here are exceptionally good for there are several 

 plantations of forest trees that have been estab- 

 lished under forest conditions at various times 

 during the past thirty years. These plantations 

 speak for themselves and demonstrate beyond 

 question what these trees will do under like 

 conditions. 



The laboratory of this department covers 175 

 acres of the college farm devoted exclusively to 



