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casting, and is substantial and strong in all 

 parts. It is 9 feet 9 inches high and occupies 

 14 feet of floor space. 



The machine embodies an entirely new feature 

 in the application of power, the object being a 

 ■<lrastic longitudinal stress upon the timber to be 

 bent. This is secured by means of an elastic 

 cable railway bold taut by four powerful springs, 

 which are capable of exerting an aggregati' 

 tnergy of G.OOO pounds. Upon this railroad roi: 

 the trucks by w-hicb are carried the inner or 

 lower ends of the levers or bending arms. Long 

 experience in the art of bending timber proves 

 this action to he necessary to secure a shape 

 in satisfactory agreement with the form upon 

 which the timbir is bent. 



A swinging crane with hoist attached is fur- 

 nished with each machine, which enables the 

 operator to easily place the forms in or out 

 •of the machine, and when out of use it is swung 

 out of the way. The machine will bend about 

 2,500 felloes l^z Inches or 1,200 wagon bounds 

 in ten hours : the other classes of work in pro- 

 portion. 



Anyone interested in this machine or in any 

 fiort of equipment for making hubs, spokes, 



JDEFIAXCE PATENTED 12-FOOT ALTO.MATIC 

 WOOD BENDING MACHINE. 



wheels, wagons, carriages, rims, shafts, poles, 

 neckyokes. singletrees, barrel hoops, handles of 

 every kind, bobbins, spools, insulated pins and 

 ■oval wood dishes may receive details in regard 

 to same and illustrated circulars by writing to 

 the Defiance Machine Works, manufacturers of a 

 wide and excellent line of this class of machin- 

 ery. 



Two New Dodge Branches 



Service is one of the chief characteristics of 

 the Dodge Manufacturing Company, power trans- 

 mission engineers and manufacturers of the 

 Dodge line of transmission machinery at Mis- 

 hawaka, Ind. This is largely based on the 

 maintenance of large stores and warehouses In 

 many of the principal cities of the country, in 

 connection with expert engineering departments, 

 which makes possible immediate deliveries and 

 the solution of knotty transmission problems 

 •Without delay. 



From time to time the Dodge people have en- 

 larged and extended this service until It now 

 takes in nine points — Boston, New York, Brook- 

 lyn, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, 

 St. Louis and London, Eng. Recently the list 

 has been augmented by the addition of Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., and Atlanta, Ga., to the list. 

 These two branches will serve as local stores 

 and distributing stations for the Northwest and 

 the South. 



The Minneapolis store is located at 202-204 

 Third street, South, and the warehouse at 312 

 to 320 First street, North. The agency arrange- 

 ment with the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery 

 Company has been discontinued. Burke Richards, 

 former resident salesman at Cleveland, O., has 



been promoted to manager of the Minneapolis 

 branch. 



The Atlanta branch and warehouse is located 

 at 54 Marietta street. S. L. Dickey, resident 

 salesman at that place, has been appointed 

 manager. No change has been made with any 

 of the agency connections in the South. 



A Veneer Punch 



Users of birdseyc maple and walnut veneer 

 will be gratified to learn of a veneer punch which 

 is a very elHcient "black spot chaser." The old 

 and frequent trouble with black eyes in maple 

 and holes in walnut is entirely done away with 

 by the use of this tool. It is the only one of 

 the kind on the market, aud is made of Sander- 



son tool steel and tempered in whale oil. Its 

 edge is as sharp as a razor. It is fitted with a 

 turned hardwood handle and bronzed to resemble 

 silver, making a neat and convenient little arti- 

 cle. The punch comes in sizes from an eighth 

 inch to three inches in diameter, and the price 

 is $3.98 for one, $11.75 for a set of three and 

 $14.75 for a set of four. The tool is sold by 

 Birdseye Walker, Chicago, exclusively. 



Government Transfers Work of Forest 

 Products Investigation 



Preparations have been completed for the 

 transfer of all the government's forest products 

 work to Madison, Wis., where the United States 

 Forest Service products laboratory will be lo- 

 cated, and to Chicago, where the headquarters of 

 the office of wood utilization will be established. 



The new forest products laboratory being 

 erected at Madison by the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, which will co-operate with the government 

 in its forest products work and which is to cost 

 approximately $5U.0U0, is now in course of con- 

 struction. The laboratory will be a fireproof 

 building of brick trimmed with white stone and 

 is located near the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 

 Paul railroad, with exclusive tracks and other 

 railroad facilities. The building is expected to 

 be ready for occupancy January 1. In the mean- 

 while temporary offlces will be located at 1610 

 Adams street, Madison. 



On October 1 the Vale timber testing labora- 

 tory was discontinued and the Forest Service 

 equipment there was shipped to Madison. The 

 laboratory at Washington was discontinued at 

 the same time. The timber testing laboratory 

 at Purdue, Ind., will be operated until the middle 

 of December, when it will be discontinued and 

 its equipment sent to Madison. 



The olflces having general supervision over all 

 the work of the branch of products will remain 

 temporarily at Washington. 



W. L. Hall, assistant forester, continues In 

 charge of branch of products and McGarvey 

 Cline will be director of the Madison laboratory. 

 The work of the laboratory will be assigned to 

 five offices, as follows : 



Wood preservation, which will study all prob- 

 lems related to the impregnation of wood with 

 preservatives and other substances. 



Wood chemistry, which will handle all work 

 bearing on the chemical utilization of forest prod- 

 ucts. Wood distillation, paper pulp and other 

 fiber products, chemical analyses of creosotes, 

 turpentines, etc., are the principal lines bandied 

 by this office. 



Timber tests, which will have charge of all 

 tests to determine the strength and other 

 mechanical properties of different woods. 



Technology, which will study the microscopic 

 structure of wood, methods of seasoning and dry- 

 ing it, and other problems of a purely technical 

 character. 



Maintenance, which will have charge of the 

 filing and computing. It will also be responsible 

 for the purchase of supplies and general care of 

 the entire laboratory. 



The class of work in the laboratory may be 

 separated into three kinds, as follows : 



1. The investigation of problems In experi- 

 mental research. 



2. Experimental work in co-operation with 

 commercial plants to verify laboratory experi- 

 ments on a commercial scale. 



3. Co-operation with outside parties for the 

 purpose of assisting them in applying principles 

 and processes of recognized commercial value 

 with which the service is thoroughly familiar. 



The supervisory stafl; of the laboratory is as 

 follows : 



McGarvey Clinc, director. 



H. S. Bristol, in charge of wood chemistry. 



H. D. Ticmann, in charge of technology. 



H. F. Weiss, in charge of wood preservation. 



Rolf Thelen, in charge of timber tests. 



W. H. Kempfer, in charge of maintenance. 



The technical force will in part be made up 

 of the following men ; 



H. E. Surface, engineer in wood chemistry. 



Edwin Sutermeister, wood pulp investigations. 



Jason L. Merrill, chemist. 



E. Bateman, chemist. 



L. F. Hawley, wood distillation investigations. 

 Frederick Dunlap, kiln drying investigations. 

 C. D. Mell, microscopist. 

 W. D. Brush, microscopist. 



C. J. Humphrey, pathologist, detailed from the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. 



F. W. Bond, mechanical engineer. 

 E. W. Ford, mechanical engineer. 

 C. T. Barnum, mechanical engineer. 

 C. 1'. Winslow, civil engineer. 



The work of the office of wood utilization at 

 Chicago will consist of studies of the wood-using 

 industries of various states, the study of woods 

 in manufacture and of the methods of disposing 

 of mill waste, the collection of statistics on the 

 price of lumber at the mill and at the principal 

 distributing markets of the country, and the 

 study of specifications and grading rules. The 

 office will also secure statistics of forest prod- 

 ucts of importance to the experimental work of 

 the service and the study of the movements of 

 lumber and of the conditions of the principal 

 lumber markets. 



The personnel of the office of wood utilization 

 for the present is as follows : 



H. S. SacUett, in charge. 



Hu Maxwell. 



Franklin U. Smith. 



Roger E. Simmons. 



Charles F. Hatch. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Moro Land & Lumber Company has re- 

 cently been incorporated at Marked Tree, Ark., 

 with a capital stock of $25,000. John J. 

 Hirchman is president ; W. L. Black, vice-presi- 

 dent ; T. J. Turner, secretary and treasurer, and 

 Paul H. WestbrooU, manager. The company now 

 has one mill in operation and will put in another 

 larger one soon. 



Fire recently broke out in the yard of the 

 Fullerton Lumber Company at Anita, Iowa. The 

 whole stock of lumber was destroyed, causing a 

 loss of about $15,000. 



The Spencer Lumber Company of Vandervoort, 

 Ark., recently started business with a capital of 

 $25,000. The incorporators are S. A. Richard- 

 son, president, B. J. Spencer and R. GofE. 



New machinery was received by the Fortuna 

 broom factory of Beeville, Tex., which when in- 

 stalled will increase the capacity of the plant 

 from fifteen to forty dozen brooms a day. A 

 stock company is being formed which will be 

 capitalized at $8,000. 



Word has been received that Hill City, a new 

 town twenty-five miles from Grand Rapids, came 

 near being wiped out by fire on November 11. 

 The town has made rapid strides in the past 

 year, due to its large hardwood forests. The 

 flames were discovered in a lumber yard, and for 

 a while threatened the destruction of the whole 

 town, as it has no fire protection. However, 



