HE only thing of its kind in the world." 

 A. G. Mclntyre, director of the forest products labor- 

 atories of Canada, so terms the United States forest 

 products laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, after a 

 six weeks' investigation for the purpose of modeling the 

 Canadian work upon the methods in vogue here. 



As a direct result of the wonderful advance accomplished 

 in the utilization of forest products through the investigations 

 of this laboratory the last three years, the government of 

 the Dominion decided to undertake similar woik and at the 

 last session parliament appropriated $100,000 to establish in 

 Montreal, in conjunction with McGill university, a forest 

 products laboratory to be built along the lines of the institu- 

 tion at Madison. 



"Its influence has spread thoroughout the world," declared 

 the Canadian. 



In the work of the laboratory several features stand out 

 particularly, although all of the investigations in the various 

 departments on wood utilization have been remarkably val- 

 uable to the country in dollars and cents. Results of the in- 

 vestigations of the mechanical and physical properties of all 

 American woods is one of the most elaborate and extensive 

 investigations now going on. 



All Trees Analyzed. 



This work will be completed within another year, when the 

 department will have obtained complete data on all of the 

 mechanical and physical properties of every tree growing in 

 the United States. The scope of this work has taken in every 

 property which wood possesses and the results of this work 

 can be used to determine absolutely to what uses any wood 

 may be put; how woods may be substituted for one another; 

 and how woods may be substituted for other materials. The 



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