(From the Forest Service, U. S- 2tepr.rt:^:nt of Agriculture.) 



".AST:- FROU :r: 



Y^aste wood in the nianuf' ctu.-e of school ce^I;^. i>v r.rv 

 being used for the backs of cheap brushes, according to the 

 statenxnt of the forest service. 



A large manufacturer of school defeks in ilichigan 

 had a considerable amount of waste laaterial in-siz.es v;hich 

 v;ei e too short to enter into the r.anuf-'icture of the smallest 

 desks, and could not be utilized further* vith his machinery 

 or in his line of work, Yhis >\>. terial was all hard maple in 

 pieces an inch thick, a fo:>t or so long, and .about three 

 inches v/ide; for a long tine it had been consigned to the 

 ote pile and sold as f ire-v.-ood. This v?>ste amounted to 

 from one thousand to fifteen hundred board feet each day. A 

 n ,:by iianuf -\cturer w?.s using practically this ouantity of 

 Le , vhich he was sav:ing up into smll pieces for Baking 

 bac ks o f c he ap bru she s . 



Ueiibers of the forest service, inves^ig^ ti;i ; nethods 



f '-.-* -^-* 



of eliiiinatlng f.-.-.ctory v.aste , conceived .t!\e idea that he 

 blocks use I by the brush factory could be : .-. uily secured 

 f: ji .. the v;.-ste of the school desk r-ianuf actir/er , and on thit 

 -is gQT, tlie tv;o together. Arrn.ngei .ent. s v/e: e i-.ade so that 

 brush Manufacturer nov places o: d :s - ith thti othej firr* 

 its rav. -material and -.h .t v:r, i'or^ei'ly wactfi is nov a 



s-^i r ce of profit , 



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