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10. Insufficient or improper adjustment of 

 the guides for the saw as It enters or leaves the 

 cut. 



11. Improperly shaped teeth or wrong width 

 of blade for the wood or work to be done. 



12. Improper gauge or uneven sharpening and 

 setting. Insufficient set will cau.se the blade to 

 heat, run wavy, and set up cracks. Cracks will 

 also be caused by too much set. 



13. Insufficient gullet space allowing the saw- 

 dust to chamber and bind the blade. Rounded 

 gullets are less liable to crack than angular 

 ones. 



14. Saw- teeth burnt in sharpening by fore 

 ing the emery wheels. 



15. Insufficient or too much strain on the 

 blade by the counterweight. 



16. Irregular roller or hammer tension in 

 the body of the blade, leaving tight or slack 

 spots. 



17. Too much tension in saw teeth, or too 

 long a back. Hammer tension applied too heavily. 



IS. Saw blades or guides out of line with 

 traveling carriage or feed rollers. 



19. Irregular wear on the lower saw-wheel 

 bearings from the pull of the belt or slack top 

 bearings. 



20. The use of the cross line throwing the 

 blade in a twist and causing it to rub harder 

 again.st one guide than the other, and thus crys- 

 tallizing the steel. 



21. Allowing the blade to get convex on the 

 tooth edge. 



22. Forcing the feed, using dull saws, too 

 much "hook," too slim teeth, etc. 



23. Improper speed. 



24. An inefficient operator. 



In conclusion, given in the first instance a 

 well-constructed machine, with an operator ca- 

 pable of running it on what may be termed scien- 

 tific lines, with a good saw blade run at the 

 proper speed and correct for the wood and feed 

 in shape of teeth, sharpening, tensioning, set- 

 ting gauge, width and temper, there is little 

 doubt that a band saw is one of the most money- 

 earning and valuable of all woodworking ma- 

 chines. 



About Joe Fordney 



A recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post 

 has the following pleasant chat about Senator 

 Joseph Fordney of Michigan. As Mr. Fordney is 

 heavily interested in the Gilchrist-Fordney Com- 

 pany, the big yellow pine institution at Laurel, 

 Miss., this matter will undoubledly be interesting 

 to Record readers : 



Joe Fordney's other name is Little Abie 

 Apropos. When anything happens within Joe's 

 ken — or without it — which sums up the whole 

 human field, Joe says, "That reminds me," and 

 tells a yarn. Every time he makes a speech he 

 puts in" five stories, and every time he doesn t 

 make a speech he puts in six. 



I'ou can see what that means. His life, like 

 the life of every other statesman — except Sena- 

 tor Heyburn — is divided into two parts : one 

 when he is making speeches and one when he 

 isn't. The Senator's life is different. It has 

 but one part, for he is always making speeches. 

 Joe is only a middling hand at talking. He 

 comes to bat every time an impious revisionist 

 alleges the tariff is no better than it should be. 

 but he lets a lot of other opportunities get by 

 without illuminating them by the clear light of 

 bis logic. 



One reason for that is because he has to spend 

 a good deal of his time in the cloakroom cheer- 

 ing up the discouraged regulars. Whenever one 

 of our stand-pat brethren gets a letter from 

 home couched in such polite language as this, 

 "You lobster ! What do you mean by supporting 

 Old Joe Cannon and standing for that cowardly 

 and iniquitous tariff hill? We'll attend to your 

 case when we get you out here this fall" — which 

 is frequently, to be conservative about it — that 

 stand-patter looks up Joe and complains in this 

 way; "Fordney, what do you think of this? 

 Those people of mine out there simply will not 

 understand." 



"Oh," says Joe, "toll 'em along, toll 'em along, 

 and it will come out all right. Their position 

 reminds me of a lawyer who was examining a 

 very crooked witness. After a time the lawyer 



gave it up and. turning to the judge, said. 'Your 

 Honor, I would just as soon shoot skyrockets 

 into hell for the purpose of illumination as to 

 try to get the facts out of this witness.' Toll 

 'em along." 



Then the stand-patter laughs a sort of a 

 mirthless laugh, and Joe is reminded again and 

 again, and presently the stand-patter looks out 

 of the window and sees the grass is still green 

 and the flowers are still blooming on the ter- 

 races, and cheers up until the next mail comes in. 



Politically, Joe Fordney, coming from Michi- 

 gan, is the Champion High Protectionist. He 

 even has an edge on John Dalzell. With him — 

 Joe — the Dingley law was the most perfect tariff 

 law ever spread on a statute-hook until the 

 Payne-Aldrich law came along, and then the 

 Pa.vne-Aldrich law assumed that proud posi- 

 tion and will hold it until another Republican 

 Congress passes another tariff law. At that 

 precise moment Fordney will shift his allegiance 

 to the new law, for his faith is progressive in 

 this regard. No regular Republican or set of 

 regular Republicans can do anything to the 

 tariff that will not meet with the full, frank, 

 complete and unqualified indorsement of Joe. 



Recently, when they were having that terrific 

 struggle in the House over an appropriation of 

 $2.50.000 to enable the Tariff Board to secure 

 information that may be of value when the time 

 comes to make another tariff — that terrific strug- 

 gle for which the plans and specifications were 

 made long before the fight began — Joe. having 

 been assigned to lead one column into the terri- 

 ble battle, took up Senator Beveridge's speech at 

 the Indianapolis convention a time back and 

 proceeded to give so many cheers for the Payne- 

 Aldrich tariff that his speech sounded like fire- 

 crackers going off in a barrel. 



Joe is no slouch of a tariff talker. He can 

 sling statistics with any of them, and it is 

 amazing what some of those Congressional ora- 

 tors can do with figures. Take the exhibition 

 that always occurs on the last day of the ses- 

 sion, when the chairman of the appropriations 

 committee gets up and shows how the appro- 

 priations have been economical and patriotic 

 and needed ; and the ranking Democrat on the 

 committee rises immediately thereafter and 

 shows, by the same figures, that the appropria- 

 tions have been wasteful, extravagant, and have 

 brought the country to the verge of ruin. It 

 all depends on the viewpoint. The statistics are 

 as limber as a rubber band, and as elastic. 



Thus, when Joe was leading his share of the 

 forces in this horrendous sham battle, he took 

 the same figures the Senator from Indiana used, 

 and he showed that conditions prevailed exactly 

 antithetic to those the Senator from Indiana 

 elucidated. Now, that but mildly interested the 

 House, but Joe had a good audience, for every- 

 body knew when he got warmed up to it he 

 would put in a few stories, and they were willing 

 to endure the figures for the figments. 



Sure enough, when Joe reached the question of 

 linoleums — a thrilling question — he put one over. 

 "He is ahead of the times," said Joe. "It re- 

 minds me of a Frenchman I once knew who 

 went out on a hunt with his dog. The dog got 

 after a fox. The Frenchman followed as well 

 as he could until he came to a neighbor who 

 was chopping wood. 'Pete,' he said, 'did you see 

 anything of a dog and a fox?' 



" 'Yes ; they went by a little time ago.' 



"'How were they making it, Pote?' 



" 'Well, it was nip and tuck ; but, if anything, 

 the dog was just a little ahead.' " 



In these doleful days anything that diverts 

 tlie mind of a stand-patter from contemplation 

 of his personal woes is loudly welcomed — and 

 they all laughed. Then Joe went along a bit 

 farther and. while commenting on the position 

 of the Senator from Indiana, who claimed to be 

 a Protectionist and a Republican but voted 

 against the tariff bill, he told one of Cushman's 

 stories about a man who was milking a cow. A 

 cow story is always good for a laugh. It seems 

 a farmer named Brown was milking a cow when 

 a neighbor came over to borrow a doubletree. 

 Brown sat on a stool, milking vigorously, and the 

 pail was about full of milk. As the neighbor 

 came up a fly lighted on the cow and the cow 

 switched her tail and struck the farmer in the 

 face. The farmer kicked the cow. Presently 

 another fl.v bit the cow and the cow again 

 switched her tail and hit the farmer. The 

 farmer kicked the cow again. "Brown," said 

 the man wlio came over to borrow the doubletree, 

 "you ought to do one of two things. Either 

 quit kicking the cow or let go of the teat." 



Perhaps the Western stand-patters did not 

 laugh at that — that is. such of the Western men 

 as are stand-patters, there being an occasional 

 one left who has not yet translated the signs 

 from home, but who will translate them, or have 

 them translated for him. in the near future. 



So Joe wandered on, reminded now and then 

 of a stor.v that fitted in, and when he had finished 

 the stand-patters crowded around him and told 

 him he had certainly led a brilliant charge, and 

 that the enemy, and particularly the Senator 

 from Indiana — who wasn't there, of course — 

 were demolished. Then, after a few days more 

 of it. everybody turned in and voted for the 



appropriation, and Joe had garnered some more 

 fame. 



it really is a great thing for the regulars in 

 the House to' have a man like Fordney among 

 them. Take the situation home to yourself. 

 Suppose you were a statesman, hitched up to 

 Uncle Joe and hitched up to the present tariffs 

 and the people back home were giving every 

 evidence of going on the warpath against vou, 

 wouldn't you like to have a haven of cheer "like 

 Joe to turn to? Think of the delight of going 

 into the cloakroom and finding Joe there, in a 

 liig chair, telling stories to all comers. You 

 wouldn't be too particular, either, whether the 

 stories were old or new. 



Fordney comes from the Saginaw district and 

 has l>een in Congress for eleven years. He was 

 born in Indiana, but when he was sixteen years 

 old he went to Michigan and drifted to a logging 

 camp, where be worked for years in every 

 capacity, from boy about camp to boss. He 

 knows as much, probably more, about the lum- 

 bering industry than any man in the House, 

 and you may be very sure that he has protected 

 lumber to the best of his ability since he has 

 heen in public life. He is a genial, good-natured, 

 hardworking man, a member of the ways and 

 means committee, and well versed in the tariff 

 from his protection viewpoint. 



Likewise he is the Human Arabian Nights. 

 He has a thousand and one tales, and then 

 some. He can fit a story into an occurrence, 

 or an occurrence into a story, working either 

 way with equal facility. The only time he ever 

 failed was on the proposition to put lumber on 

 the free list. That was a sacrilege, Joe thought, 

 and he couldn't think of a story that fitted to 

 save his life. 



Ratio of Rough Lumber Consumption to 

 Remanufactured Stock 



The United States Department of Agriculture 

 is investigating the output of rough lumber from 

 American sawmills, with a view to obtaining 

 information as to the uses for which rough lum- 

 ber is shipped to be manufactured. The study 

 is being carried on with a view to outlining a 

 more economic use of our forest resources. The 

 results obtained so far indicate that more than 

 five-eighths of the rough lumber sawn reaches the 

 consumer in the form of remanufactured 

 articles. 



The loss in manufacture in this country in the 

 woods, mills and factory is approximately two- 

 thirds of the original tree, the heaviest part of 

 this loss taking place in the sawmills. While 

 much of the mill waste is probably unavoidable, 

 it will Ije minimized with the increasing demand 

 for lumber and the better prices obtained. Re- 

 manufacturing waste is a small item compared 

 to what is not utilized at the sawmill. This 

 study of the demands of the wood-using indus- 

 tries will undoubtedly he of assistance in indi- 

 cating means by which the mills may profitably 

 market a part of what now goes to the burner. 



Recent similar statistics compiled by the 

 Department of Agriculture, in Massachusetts, 

 Maryland. North Carolina and Wisconsin, show 

 that in those states 36 per cent of the total mill 

 output is marketed in the form of rough lum- 

 ber, and 64 per cent is remanufactured. Using 

 the same ratio for the entire country, we find 

 that about 13,000,000,000 feet of lumber is yearly 

 consumed in the rough form, and 23,500,000,000 

 feet is turned into remanufactured articles. 



The investigation which yielded these detailed 

 figures was made also with a view to ascertain- 

 ing what commodities are made wholly or in 

 part of wood, the various kinds of .wood used, 

 their origin and their cost, and any other valu- 

 able data whict would he of assistance to tim- 

 ber growers, and to buyers and sellers of lumber. 



Under the general heading of rough lumber 

 can be placed any material used for bridge tim- 

 ber, house frames, farm fences, trestles, board 

 walks, walls and similar classes of construction, 

 which only require such cutting and fitting as 

 to properly assemble the different parts. Re- 

 manufactured lumber includes flooring, finished 

 siding, sash, doors, frames, panels, stairs, boats, 

 vehicles, boxes, baskets, turnery, woodenware, 

 cooperage, vehicles, musical instruments, farm 

 implements, furniture, spools, handles and 

 various other articles too numerous to mention. 



The total population of the states mentioned 

 is a little over 9,000,000, and of the United States- 



