SELLING LUMBER 



189 



The Yellow Pine Shingle 



By J. H. Eddy 



General Sales Agent, Kaul Lumber Co. 



Birmingham, Ala. 



The yellow pine shingle constitutes a valuable by-product of 

 our industry, which has been at once very badly neglected and 

 very sadly abused. With a great natural market at the very doors 

 of our mills, and with quantities of material at hand which Could 

 by a simple operation and at small outlay be turned into a product 

 to perfectly meet this existing demand, we have failed to see and 

 take advantage of our opportunity. But few of our well managed 

 and well equipped mills have attempted the manufacture of shin- 

 gles at all, and those which have done so have not as a rule seemed 

 to realize the importance of the product, for they have not given 

 due consideration to what is required of a roofing material, that 

 they might meet these requirements, nor have they concerned them- 

 selves with the methods of application used by the consumer and 

 his agents. Thus, while millions of yellow pine shingles have 

 been manufactured annually, they have been produced by small, 

 poorly equipped mills, and from inferior material, without any re- 

 gard whatever for requirements. And these shingles have been 

 applied in a most haphazard way, which could not fail to give 

 bad results. 



We have not only failed to take advantage of a splendid 

 opportunity to serve the public and benefit ourselves, but our neg- 

 lect has given the substitute manufacturer his opportunity. 



Happily, we are at last awake to the situation, and are now 

 prepared to offer proper specifications for the manufacture and 

 use of the yellow pine shingle, which we wish to lay before you, 

 and which we believe will re-establish the product. The purpose of 

 this paper is to discuss this project, and to enlist your co-operation 

 in carrying it through. 



For the purposes of this discussion, we may safely assume 

 the existence of a sufficient market for our product ; we may even 

 assume a decided preference on the part of the home builder for 

 this very product, the wood shingle. Wood has been his favorite 

 building material since that time from which the memory of man 



A Valuable 

 By-Product 

 Neglected. 



