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Handling of Hardwood Record Bulletin 

 Service. 



As Ilie lumbei' advei-tiscrs iu the llAiaiwouu 

 Kkcord are aware, this publication is issuing in 

 serial bulletin form a list o( the names and 

 addresses of the chief wholesale hardwood lumber 

 consumers of the United States and abroad. 

 These bulletins are printed in pamphlet form, on 

 one side of the paper only, to enable lumbermen 

 to utilize them as a card index sj-stem, thus pro- 

 viding a correct, up-to-date list of addresses of 

 the principal users of hardwoods in the United 

 States, with their annual requirements of all 

 kinds of lumber by grades and thicknesses. 



An excellent method of handling this service 

 is illustrated on this page. While this list will 

 undoubtedly cover the addresses of fully 12,000 

 (onccrns, the average lumberman will probably 

 not utilize more than 2.000 names. He there- 

 fore should analyze the bulletins, cuttiqg out 

 such addresses as interest him, have them pasted 

 on cards on which are printed the names of the 

 various woods, as shown in the illustration. 

 The different kinds of lumber employed by the 

 wholesale consumer should then be cheeked, pos- 

 sibly in red ink. the dimension stock require- 

 ments in the same wood in black ink and the 

 veneer requirements in some other colored ink. 

 These cards should be tiled between guide cards 

 bearing the names of the several states, a cwo- 

 drawer card index sys- 

 tem will carry 2,000 of 

 these addresses and a 

 second system can be 

 added if necessary. The 

 cost of the two-drawer 

 cabinet and necessary 

 cards is about S7.30. 

 These cards may be 

 added to on receipt of 

 each succeeding bulle- 

 tin. It is confidently 

 expected that this ser- 

 vice will be completed 

 within twelve months, 

 but after that it is in- 

 tended to furnish cor- 

 rections and the names 

 of new concerns regu- 

 larly. 



In addition to this 

 lumber consump t i o n 

 pamphlet the Hard- 

 wooi) Record issues a 

 bulletin covering ail 

 new and improved pub- 

 lic, commercial and 

 private structures about 

 to be erected in all 

 the principal cities of 



tlie United States. These bulletins tell the 

 character of the structures, the names of archi- 

 tect, owner or builder, making a valuable source 

 of information looking to the supplying of in- 

 terior woodwork, doors, flooring, etc., to be even- 

 lually used in the building. This service is 

 supplied to our interior finish and flooring ad- 

 vertisers and. like the lumber bulletins, it is 

 s'^nt free to advertisers. 



.V third series of bulletins is being put out 

 flee to machinery advertisers in the H.iiiDWOOii 

 Uecobd, covering the list of new sawmills, plan- 

 ing mills, furniture factories and generally all 

 luslitutions employing woodworking machinery. 



In the event that the Recobd has by any mis- 

 chance failed to supply any of its advertisers 

 with the particular bulletins which interest them 

 on notification they will be promptly supplied. A 

 limited numljer of copies of the bulletins which 

 have been issued within the last sixty days arc 

 still available and will be supplied advertisers 

 on request. 



among the speakers being Charles W. Garfield, 

 .1. H. Martin, V. S. Udell, Prof. ]■:. II. Strong of 

 the state normal school, William Widdicomb of 

 the Widdicomb Furniture Company, the Rev. 

 V. P. Arthur, Prof. I'ilibert' Roth, state forest 

 warden, Mrs. JI. K. Campbell, and Walter C. 

 Winchester of the Uoster-Winchester Company. 

 The addresses were very interesting, the remarks 

 of Mr. Winchester, a lumberman of many years' 

 experience, who recently returned from a trip 

 around the world, being especially well received. 

 He spoke in part as follows; 



•It certainly must be plain to everyone tliat 

 with the enormous amount of timber being cut 

 every year, both for our own use and for export 

 to foreign countries, that it will only be a short 

 time before all our merchantable timber will be 

 gone. By planting, and fully as much by taking 

 care of the young timber, it would not be long 

 before we would have returns. When Japan, 

 with 60 per cent of her land covered with for- 

 ests, and some of the European countries with as 

 large a per cent of timber, have adopted rigid 

 forestry laws, is it not time that we awoke to 

 the situation? 



"I would advocate withdrawing from market 

 every acre of timber land owned by the United 

 States or by states and territories. Where the 

 states now own lands suitable for growing tim- 

 ber I would plant with trees best fitted to the 



NliW-VOUK. NF,W YllliK Kohki & CflniiibHll. nth Ave. and Klftlelb SI . 

 manufactuiei s of pUuns, piano cases nod cabinets ; Mr, Koliler, himhei 

 buyer; loii.ooo feet 4 4. *;/4 and 8/4 No. 1 comraun basswood ; .".tt.ooo feet 

 4^4 No 1 'otniDcin rtiii birch; .'iO.OOO feet No. 1 common 4/4 white bircli 

 2."0.(i()t) feet 4/4. 0/4 atid K/4 sound wormy chestnut; l.'iD.Dlll) feet 3/4 

 firsts and seconds and No. 1 common red gum ; lOtt.bOO feet 4/4. .1/4. 6/4 

 and 8/4 No 1 common mahogany ; UIO.OOO feet .%/4 firsts and seconds haid 

 maple; T.'i.OOO feet .■)/4 and «/4 firsts and seconds soft maple; 2'>i).("i ' 

 feet 5/4. t>/4 and 8/4 \o. 1 common plain white oak ; lint. 000 feet .">/4. 6/4 

 and 8/4 No. 1 common quartered white oak; :{."»o.0ti() feet 1-Inch firsts and 

 seconds and No 1 common (juarfered poplar. 2.*(0.0(lo feet 4/4 No. 1 com 

 mon 'poplar; ■300.ltt»n feet 2-Inch No. 1 common poplar; l.'.o.tlt)0 feet rt/4 

 flrst.s and seconds poplar; .'ino.Ollll feet 6/4. 10/4 and 12/4 Nn. 1 and 2 

 common poplar. Veneer and panel stock; .l.OOO.OOO feet j)opIar. biid,eye 

 maple, mahogany, black walnut and quarlered oak. 



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HAXDLI.Nc; IIAKDWOOD RECORD LI'.MBKK BULLETIN SERVICE BY CARD 

 INDEX SYSTEM. 



An Interesting Speech on Forestry. 

 Forestry was discussed at a well attended 

 meeting of the Grand River Valley Horticultural 

 Society held at Grand Rapids, Midi.. August 11, 



different soils and climates, adopting or improv- 

 ing on methods of reforestry in vogue in Europe. 

 Furthermore, I should urge the states to buy 

 back all the good lands suitable for forestry 

 as fast as the lumberman takes off the mer- 

 chantable timber. 



"1 would sustain fire wardens and preserve 

 the timber that is useless to the lumberman, but 

 wiiich has taken from twenty to sixty years to 

 grow. There is plenty of such laud that could 

 be bought by tiie stales now before the fire has 

 run through them. The most important thing is 

 to keep the fire out — enact severe laws against 

 luiilding fires in timber lands everywhere. 



"Now let us consider for a moment the object 

 lessons that the older countries of the world 

 afford us. Not a sign of a tree in the Holy 

 Land around .Terusalem and land tliat was once 

 in a high state of cultivation is a barren waste. 

 Wood is very scarce in Italy and lirush is brought 

 to town like hay for use as fuel. 



"Switzerland has considerable pine and hard- 

 wood, a good deal of which has been planted. 

 When a tree is cut the limbs are sorted into 

 sizes, tied in bundles and even the twigs and 

 leaves are saved and the stump dug out and 

 utilized. There are extensive forests in Russia, 

 Norway and Sweden and these countries supply 



ICuropc with a good deal of timber. The shores 

 of the Mediterranean are pretty well stripped 

 of timber. 



"The traveler in China sees no timber except 

 around the villages. The teakwood of northern 

 Siam and Burmah is hauled from the streams 

 by elephants and after being allowed to dry for 

 a year is floated down the rivers and sawed 

 into .squares and carried to Ilurope. Teak is a 

 light brown, not black, as many people suppose, 

 and is a very valuable wood. No doubt there 

 is a great deal of valuable wood for cabinet pur- 

 poses in Australia, the Philippines, .lava, Su- 

 matra, Borneo and the islands in that vicinity. 

 India has hardwood iu the uplands, but with 

 the exception of .Japan and Manchuria none of 

 these countries has soft wood sudi as pine and 

 cedar, so that (he resources of the United States 

 are constantly being drawn on. In Java, the 

 .Malay peninsula and Ceylon the natives are 

 planting the rubber tree and iu seven years these 

 trees attain a growth of six inches and are 

 tapped. 



"It remains for the little empire of Japan to 

 sliow us what may be done along forestry lines. 

 With the change in government forty years ago 

 there sprang up a great demand for timber for 

 building and mining purposes and for export to 

 China and Corea and there was considerable 

 indiscriminate cutting. Strict forestry laws were 

 enacted about ten years ago, the best methods 

 of Germany and some other European countries 

 being adopted. The ownership of the forests of 

 Japan is now divided 

 as follows : State lands, 

 one-half ; imperial 

 lands, one-eighth ; pri- 

 V a t e lands, three- 

 eighths. All of these 

 lauds are under govern- 

 ment control. 



"The Japs are study- 

 ing and experimenting 

 with woods from vari- 

 ous countries, the prin- 

 cipal plan of reforesting 

 being to plant trees 

 that have grown in the 

 nursery from three to 

 five years. They had 

 407 of these nursery 

 beds in 1000, and are 

 lilantiug the cryptome- 

 ria and several species 

 of pine largely. The 

 cryptomeria is a spe- 

 cies of cedar with 

 straight body, some- 

 times reaching a height 

 of 200 feet and diame- 

 ter of six feet. The 

 hardwoods there are 

 about the same that we 

 Extensive forests of bamboo are 



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"I looked up the forestry laws of Japan, some 

 of the salient points of which are as follows : 



"No one is allowed to kindle a fire in a forest. 

 If anyone finds a fire has broken out the same 

 must be reported to the officers at once under 

 penalty. 



"A forest that has become treeless or left 

 waste may be ordered reforested by the minister 

 within a prescribed time. In case this is neglect- 

 ed the government shall do so and charge up the 

 expense to the party or take the land. Any 

 such land ordered to be reforested may be ex- 

 empted from taxes for twenty-five years. 



"When a public or private forest is to be cut 

 the minister supervising the forestry affairs for 

 the district shall direct the work. 



"If anyone cuts timber in contravention of the 

 direction mentioned in the preceding article, the 

 minister may cause him to stop the cutting and 

 replant the spot where cutting has been carried 

 on. 



"When replanting, provided for in the pre- 

 ceding article, has been neglected by the obligor, 

 the government shall replant. In this case either 

 the expense incurred shall be imposed on the 



