HARDWOOD RECORD 



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But when we came to make our final settle- 

 ment with Skinner & Co. we found that grades 

 and measurements hadn't anything like held 

 up to our estimates, so that instead of having a 

 profit awaiting us. we found a slight deficit. 

 This was disappointing Indeed, hut as we didn't 

 owe anything, and had our outfit all paid for. 

 we felt that we could stand it hotter than if we 

 had had .some payments to meet. 



.Vll we had lost was our time and the value 

 of our tinder. This same experience with slight 

 modifications has been repeated year after year. 



Often we have found our lumber passing 

 through as many as five hands between us and 

 the consumer. I*]ach one had to have a profit, 

 and handling freight, and office expenses bad 

 to be paid out of the difference between the 

 price we got and the price the consumer had to 

 pay. 



We doubt whether the quality of the lumber 

 was improved any by reason of these various 

 handlings, hut we do know that in most cases 

 the grade was raised. 



As we look back over the situation it occurs 

 to us that maybe in calling a convention like 

 this one which is. we presume, to be devoted 

 to the interests and betterment of the condi- 

 tions of the men who make hardwood lumber, it 

 might not be a bad plan to extend the scope 

 of tho organization a little, and invite the at- 

 tendance of some of the only class of men in 

 whose power and to whose interests it would 

 lie to remedy to some extent the condition of 

 such men as Bill and I, 



Let in a few consumers, and make it an or- 

 ganization of muttml interests, for then we 

 would be in a position to assist and protect 

 each other. 



We have no particular animosity against the 

 dealers, and fully realize that the trade will 

 never exist without their aid and support. They 

 are live, bright, brainy, energetic men, and no 

 doubt most of them earn their money well and 

 truly : but let ns get along with fewer of them 

 and simplify the work they .-ire doing. It need 

 he no hardship on them, for they are capable of 

 making a living in most any other line of work, 

 and will soon find some other class to subsist 

 on. 



If we can manage to get the profits, of say 

 halt of them, to divide between the producer 

 and consumer, it will make dividends for both 

 parties, where many times under the existing 

 conditions there are none for either. 



Again expressing our regret that Bill and I 

 cannot be with you, we remain 



Your huml>Ie and benighted servants. 

 .ToHN Greenwood. 

 Bir-E Blockwood. 



■Wants White Oak Truck Poles 



G-\IXESVILLE^ Fda.j Jan. 31. — Editor H-iKD- 

 WOOD Record : We are in the market for six 

 carloads of white oak truck poles : 



SHxoU' butt X 214 square point. 



2i,i.x6 butt X 2 V.. square point. 



2% X GVj butt X 2% square point, 



3 x7 butt X "x3 point — 

 all 13 feet long. All must be absolutely free 

 of defects and sawed from good, sound, live 

 timber, Company. 



Any Hardwood reader who woulil like to 

 communicate with the writers of the above 

 letter can liave the address by writing this 

 office. — Editok. 



Yellow Poplar Lumber Company Commences 

 Sawing 

 Coal Grove, O., Jan. 27. — Editor H.\rd- 

 wooD Becokd: It is with considerable pleas- 

 ure that I am able to advise that we started 

 our 1910 sawing season here yesterday. We 

 have had a fine log delivery during the past 

 week, whii-li includes part of the excellent 



lot of virgin-forest poplar logs you saw at the 

 head of Sandy Eiver last fall. The first day 's 

 sawing would indicate the fine quality of lum- 

 ber this timber will produce. 



We are gratified with the work of the 

 splash dam, which has made these early de- 

 liveries possible. We expect to keep our 

 mills in steady operation throughout the year, 

 beginning night run about March 1, 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, 



C. M. Crawford, Sec V, 



Acknowledgment from Gifford Pinchot 



W.vsiHNGTO.N-, D. C Feb. 4. — Editor IlAiiu- 

 wooD IJecord : The great pressure of work 

 must be my excuse for the long delay in ac- 

 knowledging your letter of Januai'y IS, enclos- 

 ing a copy of resolutions passed at the annual 

 meeting of the Indiana Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation on ,lanuary 13. Such support and en- 

 couragement do a man good. 



Please give my best thanks to the members <if 

 the association, and especially tu Mr. Burk- 

 holder. for their good wishes. 



With renewed thanks for your letter. 



GiFi'oitu Pinchot. 



Likes the Record 



The following letter has been received from 

 an Axim (West Africa) ' reader of the 

 Eecord, whose subscription was supplied by 

 tlie C, C, Mengel & Bro. Company, Louis- 

 ville, Ky, It shows that the paper is appre- 

 ciated even in that far-off land. — Editor, 



AxiM, "W, C. Africa, Jan. 14. — Editor Hard- 

 wood Record : We take^ pleasure in acknowl- 

 edging the receipt of your valued favor of 13th 

 ult., advising us that Messrs, C. C. Mengel & 

 Bro. Company had remembered us in so very ac- 

 ceptable a manner. We anticipate from its pe- 

 rusal even more pleasure than the satisfaction 

 experienced by you in adding our name to the 

 subscription list of "the best lumber paper 

 printed," and the best is good enough for us. 

 Veeder B. P.vine, 

 General Manager. 



Wants No, 2 Two-Inch Quartered White Oak 

 PHiLADEiniiA, Pa., Feb. 4. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : We are very anxious to secure some 

 Xo. 2 common .S-4 quartered white oak. If you 

 can advise us wliere we can locate any we will 



appreciate it very much. . 



Anyone desiring to communicate with this 

 leading eastern wholesaler can have the ad- 

 dress by advising this office. — Editor. 



Wants Veneer Factory 



The following letter is self-c-\[ilauatory. — 

 Editor. 



Augusta, Ga., Feb. 5. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : We are looking for a connection to 

 start a veneer plant at this point. We do not 

 know of any location in the United States that 

 is better adapted, on account of price of logs 

 and quality of same, than here. In the first 

 place, we have a log rate coming in Augusta 

 that is. at a radius of one hundred and fifty 

 miles, which has the same rate a.s lumber, with 

 a 40,()00-pound minimum instead of twenty-four. 

 In other words, within a radius of twenty miles 

 Ihe rate on logs averaging 13 inches would be 

 about $2 per thousand feet. 



The woods that are handy to get are poplar, 

 gum, pine, oak, ash, cedar and cypress. Our 

 ash has no superior ; our gum is of the best 

 quality; poplar and oak, however, are not the 



equal of the Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana 

 stocks, but are being shipped out of this sec- 

 tion daily to a number of veneer men. 



We have suitable land and buildings, and 

 would gladly answer fully all further questions 

 to a prospective buyer. 



Augusta Box & Mfg. 10., 

 T. G. Puilpot, Sec'y and Gen, Mgr, 



Stand Well With Him 



The Record is in receipt of the following 

 amusing letter from .1, C, Strauss, the well- 

 known photograjdier of St, Louis, with whom 

 negotiations were recently made for making 

 pictures for tliis publication. Tjunibermen 

 certainly .stand well with the "picture-man" 

 of St. Louis, — Editor, 



.St. Louis. Jan. 28.— My dear Mr. Gibson: 

 Responding to yours of the twent.v-sixth — in my 

 experience of more than a quarter of a century. 

 I have found lumliermen about the best ever 

 with whom lo do business, and millionaires have 

 a peculiar charm. So I am willing to take my 

 chances with any man who is a combination of 

 bolb whom you may route my way. 



J. C. Strauss. 



Wants Basswood Piano Eey Boards 

 London-^ E. C, Jan. 26. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : Can you put me in touch with the 

 manufacturer of white basswood piano key- 

 boards? . 



Will some reader of the Eecord who is in- 

 terested in the production of this line kindly 

 supply his address, which will be communi- 

 cated to this leading London hardwood 

 house. It may lead to some desirable trade 

 on the other side of the Atlantic. — Editor. 



Wants to Market Red Cedar 



BIG Cliftt, Kv., Feb. 2.— Editor Hardwood 

 Record ; Please furnish me the names of some 

 Hrm.s using cedar for the manufacture of pen- 

 cils ; also cedar telegraph poles and fence posts. 



J. W. Lewis. 



Anyone interested in the purchase of cedar 

 would do well to communicate with Mr. 

 Lewis. — Editor. 



Ravages of the Mistletoe 

 It is reported that the common American 

 mistletoe, Plioiadcnihiin flai-escens, has attained 

 such abundant growth in the Southwest, espe- 

 cially along the southern border of the great 

 arid region, as to be an actual pest to tree 

 growth. It is a fortunate fact that this para- 

 site thrives best in intense sunlight, for in that 

 way its harmful growth is limited to trees lead- 

 ing isolated lives. As a consequence, the dam- 

 age to forest growth is negligible, as there the 

 moist, shad.v conditions force its successful 

 germination to the topmost branches of tall 

 specimens ; its ravages are confined almost 

 wholly to shade trees. 



This parasite is unique in that it has green 

 foliage, and as a consequence merely steals un- 

 digested food of its host and not (he elaborated 

 jnoduct as is usually the case with parasites. 

 The mistletoe seed is encased in a pasty suD- 

 slance whicli causes it to stick to any body 

 on wbicli it is deposited. Its germination seems 

 li> he gi.neral on all species of tree growth. To 

 gi'rminale tlie seed must fall in some wound In 

 liic btirk of its host and with this start the 

 dissolvant enzyme contained in the root tips 

 soon forces a channel to the vitals of the tree. 

 Once well established it is only a question of 

 time when the growth will sap the life, first of 

 tlic limb on which it lives and then, if the 

 growth is abundant, of the whole tree. 



