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los r\|)('tisiv(' (liMii would utln-rwisr lir tUv casj' if thov W<'ro working 

 iii(h'p('ii(l('ntly. 



Mr. BimiANAN. An* you finding anv impure irnportrd \vn*. 



Mr. Camphklf,. Oh, yvn; we fouruf iiu)n' im|)un' iii)[)ortpd Ivns 

 flti-^ \nM year tlinii perhaps has l)een found in stune i\t>7.ru years. 



Mr. BrciiAN \\. hoes any of it have any injurious efreds inx.n tlie 

 human system '. 



Mr. ('AMpnKi.r.. .No; we <an not sav that. Mr. IJueharum; attd 

 examination really has not h«'en ma<le with that in mind. You 

 know th«' tea import aet is an e.\tremelv arhifrarv law. It gives 

 tho authority for the creation of statKJanls of different types of tea, 

 and a lea that does n<tt compare with this standard whi<h has l)een 

 a»;ree<l upon and set asi<h' eillier from the standpoint of the im- 

 purities it possesses or frtun the stan<lpoint of the cu[) <iuality it ha.s 

 IS not permitted entry. So the work really is on that r)a.><is. 



\VV\I. STORKS INVK.STKJATIONS. 



'Pile next is the item covering; invest i*;at ion of jjradinj;, wei«;hinjr, 

 handlini;, transpoitation, and uses of naval stores, dednite ty[)e 

 samph's thereof, etc., and we are askinj; for no increase on tins item. 

 This is an item which represents somethin*; in the nature of con- 

 tinuous work. Doctor \ eitch, who is chemist in charge of our 

 hihoratory having to handle that particularly. I would like to have 

 make a statement of a few minutes' length to you on that, so you can 

 appreciate in a general way just what we are doing. 



Doctor Veitcii. Mr. Chairman, perhaps I can hest illustrate this 

 work hy this statement: Ahout a month ago we were asked to join 

 with the Turpentine and Hosin Producers' Association in the in- 

 spection and study of a hig lumher plant in Alahama, which for 

 several years had not been making much money on turpentine and 

 rosin. A party of us went there and spent ahout 24 hours on the 

 job, and we reached a unanimous conclusion that due to faulty 

 methods of operation that company had failed to make ahout $24,000 

 that it could have made with good up-to-date rational methods of 

 operation and at a cost of appro.ximately 84.000. 



That condition exists very largely throughout the turpentine- 

 producing belt. Many operators are in exactly the same condition, 

 and we propose to be in a position to help them to eliminate these 

 uneconomic practices, to prevent their losses at the still and in the 

 woods, and to bring their production methods and manufacturing 

 methods up to the practice of the best operators. That will save a 

 considerable amount of m(»nev to tlie producers. 



On the other hand. Mr. Chairman, we are constantly having prob- 

 lems presented to us in regard to the use of turpentine and rosin. You 

 doubtless know rosin is being more and more largely substituted for 

 fossil resins in the manufacture of varnishes and j)aints. This is due 

 to the fact that these lesins are becoming scarcer and hi«;her priced, 

 and we are learning to use rosin more succcssfuUv. modifvinjr it to 

 take the place of these resins with better results. But every once in 

 a while somebody hits a snag, and they think that |>crhaps we 

 can help them out. Here is an example of such a problem [illustrating 

 samples of varnish to the subcommittee] that has come to us recently. 

 Here is the nornnil varnish, for instance, that should be produced 



