FORESTRY SECTION IN THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL EXHIBITION, qi 



From the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society there was 

 also a very interesting exhibit, being part of a collection of 

 170 sections of the timber of British-grown trees and shrubs, 

 and a series of 100 photomicrographic slides of plant tissue 

 highly magnified. 



The West of Scotland Agricultural College, per Dr Nisbet, 

 sent photographs of sections of British-grown trees and shrubs, 

 also transverse and longitudinal sections of various timber trees 

 prepared for teaching purposes. 



Class 15. — Wood-pulp and other materials for paper manufacture. 



Messrs Thos. Tait & Sons, Ltd., Inverurie, sent samples 

 illustrating the manufacture of wood-pulp for paper-making, 

 consisting of a log of Russian whitewood (spruce), wood chips, 

 bleached wood, boiled wood, pulped wood, and pulp beaten; 

 also samples of paper made from Scottish wood, and linen rag 

 used for mixing with pulp-wood. 



Class 16. — Examples of products chemically prepared from wood, 

 such as cellulose, acetic acid, yarn and such like. 



Messrs Turnbull & Co., chemical manufacturers, Glasgow, 

 showed samples of chemicals obtained from wood ; and Mr John 

 Glen, chemical works, Kilkerran, Maybole, exhibited samples 

 of acetate of lime, wood naphtha, wood tar and wood charcoal. 



Class 17. — Pitivood, raihvay timber, fencing juaterials {including 

 gates), wood pai'ement, cooperage and such like. 



The Marquess of Ailsa sent a neat little collection of (small- 

 sized) pitwood, consisting of larch, spruce and Corsican pine ; 

 and Lochiel sent split stobs from naturally-grown oak. Messrs 

 John Denholm & Co., Bo'ness, exhibited a nice collection of 

 different kinds of timber used for pit purposes, including Russian 

 alder, Norwegian spruce, Swedish, Russian and German redwood, 

 Russian whitewood and Scotch birch. This exhibit shows quite 

 clearly that the foreign pitwood is much superior to our home- 

 grown wood. 



Messrs James Broom & Son, Bathgate, showed a tramway 

 and a miner's hutch complete; frame of miner's hutch to show 

 how small oakwood can be utilised in the construction of such 

 articles; rails fixed to Scots pine and spruce sleepers to show 

 how smallwood of this sort can be so used ; field-gate made 

 from Siberian larch ; gate made from Deeside larch ; navvy's 

 barrow ; spade and graip shafts ; and brush handles (rough and 

 turned). 



