of a furniture -maker in Kichigan who wrote to the Forest Service 

 asking how to dispose of sugar maple blocks and sticks which 

 were cut off in the process of furniture making and which he 

 had to sell merely as fuel. Samples were obtained from him 

 and the forest service then located a scrubbing-brush manu- 

 facturer who .used small maple blocks for brush backs. The re- 

 sult was that the furniture maker was enabled to sell his 

 waste at a much higher price than it had brought as lire wood 

 while the brush rarker was enabled to buy brush-back material 

 in suitable sizes at a much lower figure than it hac" "been 

 costing him to buy ma^le lumber and cut it up. 



Firms which have been put into touch with each other 

 through the exchange are expected to notify the Forest Ser- 

 vice when their reouirements have been met; then their na.mes 

 are removed from the lists. In this way several concerns 

 which early took advantage of the plan have dropped off the 

 lists ; but as more and more manufacturers learn of the wood- 

 v/aste exchange the lists are steadily 







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