From the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office) 

 F-176 



TO CONFER ON WORK OF WORK OF FOREST SERVICE 



Specialists Will Discuss Lumber Investigations end Ex- 

 periments at Madison, Wisconsin, April 14 to 17 



Washington ---- : The nation-wide study of the lumber industry, 

 which is being made jointly by the Department of Agriculture 

 and the Tepartment of Commerce, and the other industrial sr>~ 

 technical investigations and experiments which have been cs^- 

 ried on by the Forest Service in the 'last two years, will I- 

 discussed at a conference of Forest Service officials at Mad- 

 ison, Wisconsin, on April 14 to 17. 



The Forest Service Laboratory, the Washington Office 

 of Industrial Investigations, and each of the seven National 

 Forest districts will be represented at the conference by 

 specialists. Among the subjects for discussion ere: Cooper -. .- 

 tion of the Forest Service with industries, lumber distribu- 

 tion in the United States, utilization of low-grade lumber anc 3 

 mill waste, adaptation of manufacturing and grading to specific 

 cl?-sc. s of consumers, unification and standardization of lumbe/ 

 grades, study and development of general markets for Nation.' 1 

 rorest timber, mill-scale studies, including technical met. M'S, 

 tallying, etc., lumber depreciation, rnd the collection air 

 of lumber rice data. 



I'he information already collected by the Forest Sr^Tlf 

 un?er ce;ne of these headings includes the most exhaustive dote 

 on -hJ.nical products of wood ever collected by sny agen^r 



in bhe If, and already has resulted in practical reforms 

 anc bif RT \ings to several of the important wood-using indus- 

 tries . 



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