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pulled by natives to the nearest stream and then 

 rafted to the coast. 



An important part of the foresters' work In 

 the Benin region is the planting and raising 

 of seedlings to replace trees cut. According to 

 the old rule twenty seedlings are allowed for 

 each tree felled. A group of young trees is 

 set out near the stump of the old tree and seed- 

 lings are also planted along the hauling roads. 

 An average height of fifteen feet in twenty 

 years has heen established for these young trees, 

 and some even attain twenty feet in this length 

 of time. 



Concerns worliing these lands pay a royalty 

 and export duty on their timber which is suffi- 

 cient to cover the cost of the forestry worli. 



Annual Meeting New York Association 



The twenty-third annual meeting of the New 

 Yorlc Lumber Trade Association was held at the 

 headquarters, IS liroadway, Oct. 13, preceded 

 by a Dclmonico luncheon, which was participated 

 in by a large and representative gathering. 



The meeting was presided over by .lames Sher- 

 lock Davis of Brooklyn, who is now completing 

 his fifth term as president. Mr. Davis made an 

 intei'esting address, which was commented upon 

 as being one of the best ever made to the 

 association. 



Mr. Davis reviewed the work of the associa- 

 tion during the five years of his presidency, 

 touching on the various important changes that 

 had been made through the etforts of the organ- 

 ization, that were of great benefit to the 

 members. He showed that there had been a 

 satisfactory increase in membership and that the 

 present list includes 105 concerns. After ex- 

 pressing his gratitude for the support he had 

 received from the association, Mr. Davis closed 

 his remarlss, the attendants feeling much regret 

 on losing such a vigorous and efBcient president. 



The report of the board of trustees showed 

 a total membership of 111 retailers and 103 

 wholesalers and IG non-resident members, and 

 also covered the general work of the association 

 in all departments, which showed a year of 

 activity ali along the line. 



The report of the credit system was of special 

 interest, showing a total value of claims re- 

 ported as $417,537.55 and a total amount col- 

 lected of $204,564.14, or forty-nine per cent of 

 the whole. 



The treasurer's report showed the finances to 

 be in excellent shape. 



The report of the committee on inspection was 

 of special interest and was rendered by Chair- 

 man I'atrick Moore, as follows : 

 To the Members of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association : 



The Committee on Inspection have had a busy 

 year. Tiiey have had four, regular meetings at 

 the association rooms, besides whicli they have 

 attended by sub-committees most of the important 

 meetings of sister associations which have been 

 held, notably at Albany, Springfield, Connecticut 

 and New Jersey. The principal object in attend- 

 ing these sister meetings was to place this asso- 

 ciation and its Committee on Inspection in the 

 proper light before them. So much misrepre- 

 sentation had been made concerning this associa- 

 tion's attitude on national inspection tliat we 

 felt it extremely important that the members of 

 our sister associations should know exactly the 

 truth and just where our association stood in the 

 matter. For this reason we attended these va- 

 rious meetings, and we are pleased to say that 

 in all cases we were received with great cour- 

 tesy, and that in Massachusetts, Connecticut and 

 New Jersey the United States rules were adopted 

 as the otHcial rules of those associations. These 

 rules, that is, the United States rules, were 

 adopted by this association on March 17 last. 

 and five thousand copies w'ere printed for free 

 distribution to members and all others who might 

 want them. So far as we have been able to 

 learn, the rules have met with favor. No trouble 

 has been experienced by tho.se who desire to buy 

 under them, and we feel that they are looked 

 upon as eminently fair. Besides their adoption 

 by this association and the associations above 

 referred to, they have become also the official 

 rules of the following : The Retail Lumbermen's 

 Association of Philadelphia and the Eastern 

 States Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. Your 

 committee deprecate as much as anyone the fact 

 that there is not a national inspection. At the 



present time there may be said to bo three sets 

 of rules — the United States rules, the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' rules and the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association rules. The three sets of 

 rules are not greatly at variance, and this com- 

 mittee wishes to go on record as being willing at 

 ail times to meet any and every section at least 

 half way In the formulation of rules or in anv 

 effort to bring about rules which may be fairly 

 nalionai in their character, but we als'o feel that 

 in the making of such rules an important market 

 such as is New Y'ork must be duly considered. 



The trade relations and legislation committees 

 also reported important work along those lines. 



The nominating committee presented the fol- 

 lowing ticket, and the various nominees were 

 unanimously elected : 



For president : Russell Johnson Perrine of 

 Brooklyn. 



For vice-president : John F. Steeves of Man- 

 hattan. 



For second vice-president : Frederick W. 

 Starr of Brooklyn. 



For treasurer: Charles F. Fischer of Manbiit 

 tan. 



The new president, Russell Johnson Perrine of 

 Brooklyn, is head of the large retail house of 

 Johnson Bros., Inc., an old and reputable house. 

 On taking the chair be made a few appropriate 

 remarks in which he assured the members that 

 he w-iii endeavor to perform the work to the 

 best of his alnlity. 



Following the annual meeting the board of 

 trustees met to transact routine business. 



A Help to the Veneer Man 



With the development of the veneer business 

 has come the need of many new and improved 

 machines to simplify and cheapen not only the 

 manufacture but the utilization of veneers. 



Improvements have constantly been made in 

 veneer sawing, slicing and cutting machinery, 

 and in the various minor tools that make up the 

 equipment of a veneer factory. 



In the line of especially valuable tools that 

 have latterly been designed and placed on the 

 market, no concern in the country has done 

 more to assist the veneer manufacturer in econ- 

 omy of results that has the Veneer Machinery 

 Company of 602 Austin avenue, Chicago, 111. 

 Among this company's tools is a continuous feed 

 veneer jointer, which has been in process of evo- 

 lution for some time, until now it is said to be 

 almost perfect in all details and practically in- 

 dispensable to every up-to-date veneer manu- 

 facturer. 



This machine has a continuous feed, which 

 handles a hunch of veneers at one time, trims 

 off the uneven edges, and puts on a jointing edge 

 at one operation. The machine is of large 

 capacity and is very cheap to operate. 



The original jointer had a movable bed, in 

 which the stock was clamped, the bed moving 

 forward past two cutterheads, one to take off 

 the rough cut, the other to put on the finishing 

 edge. It did good work but was of limited 

 capacity. 



To increase the capacity, another machine 

 was put out, embracing the continuous feed ar- 

 rangement and retaining the two cutterheads of 

 the original machine. This increased the capac- 

 ity alrout four times and was a decided im- 

 provement, as it handled stock of various lengths. 



The only criticism that could be made to this 

 latest machine was that like the two previous 



models it was sometimes necessary to pass the 

 stock through the machine two or three times 

 in order to trim off all the rough edges. To 

 overcome this and to save the expense of using 

 an edger or a trimmer to prepare the stock be- 

 fore jointing, the company has evolved its latest 

 model, which comprises a saw and a finishing 

 head in place of two cutterheads. 



The stock in traveling through comes in con- 

 tact with the saw which acts as an edger, cut- 

 ting off all the rough edges of the veneers. As 

 the stock travels on past the saw, it comes in 

 contact with the finishing head, which com- 

 pletes the operation, thus doing away with the 

 necessity of running the stock through several 

 times. 



This machine is beiug installed in a great 

 many plants, and users universally report satis- 

 faction. Full details can he obtained from the 

 manufacturers, the Veneer Machinery Company, 

 002 Austin avenue, Chicago. 



New Wisconsin Veneer Company 



The Wisconsin Lumber and Veneer Company 

 has been organized, with $300,000 capital stock, 

 by Fred A. Dennett of Sheboygan, John R. Den- 

 nett of Fort Washington and J. M. Bostwick. 

 Its headquarters will be at Port Washington, 

 where it will take over the veneer plant owned 

 by the Dennetts. It wiil also operate the large 

 veneer plant ow-ned by the same interests at 

 Mound City. 111. The company will manufac- 

 ture veneer from ali liinds of native hardwoods 

 and from mahogany and other imported woods 

 as well. The company has men of wide experi- 

 ence back of it so that it will undoulrtedly meet 

 with a large measure of success. 



Use of Sawdust 



There are many ways of puttiug sawdust to 

 practical use, so that it is nowadays but rarely 

 that a manufacturer is unprogressive enough 

 not to realize something on his saw waste. One 

 of the most important uses for sawdust is in the 

 manufacture of artificial woods, the sawdust 

 being mixed with tar resin and pressed at high 

 temperature in moulds, after which it can be 

 cut, planed and Ixired like ordinary wood. It 

 is susceptible of a high polish and is altogether 

 quite as satisfactory as solid wood. 



When mixed with some sort of binding ma- 

 terial sawdust is poured into moulds, making 

 imitations of wood carving that are very hand- 

 some. By this means mouldings and decorative 

 taivings of all kinds, including panels for the 

 wails and ceilings of houses, furniture orna- 

 ments, etc., can be made. 



From a mixture of the sawdust from the finer 

 hardwoods a substance known as wood marble 

 is made ; it is mixed with ivory waste to which 

 pigments are sometimes added, waterglass and 

 glue being employed as a binder. The substance 

 thus made is cut into veneers which may be 

 highly polished and are not easily distinguished 

 from the finest marbles. Oxalic acid, an impor- 

 tant commercial article, is produced nowadays 

 largely from sawdust. A fine sifted sawdust, 

 known as "wood meal," is used as an imitation 

 of pollen in the manufacture of artificial flow- 

 ers. Beech sawdust is useful for polishing gold, 

 and in France wood meal is employed to dry up 

 ink in jilace of the old-fashioned sand and as a 



VENEER JOINTER AND EDGER. 



