802 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ant that destroys other soft and hard- now equipped to handle seasoned stock 



woods. in large quantities, the volume of 



Notwithstanding the handicaps that business has been considerably in- 



have existed in connection with the creased. Australia has already ordered 



marketing of Redwood in the East, the 50,000,000 feet of Clear Redwood in 



present volume of Eastern shipments is 1914. 



now about 75,000,000 feet annually. The problem of drying Redwood 

 This stock is distributed in practically properly has been a serious one because 

 every state, except those in the extreme of the large amount of moisture the wood 

 south, from Colorado to Maine. While contains. Earlier shipments of kiln- 

 Redwood is extremely heavy when it is dried material did not give satisfaction 

 first cut, it dries out very light so that it because of the stock being dried too 

 may be advantageously shipped East quickly, or too much, leaving the wood 

 on high rates of freight in competition brittle and likely to split. Now the 

 with other woods. The foreign market manufacturers realize that the best 

 takes even greater quantities of Red- method of artificial drying is the one 

 wood than the Eastern market. Au- that approaches most nearly the natural 

 stralia and the United Kingdom are the air-drying, namely, a low heat with a 

 largest consumers of the upper grades, big circulation of air to carry off the 

 while the west coast of South America, moisture 



India China, the Philippine and Hawai- The abmty to fumish seasone d Red- 

 mn Islands use quantities of Redwood wood in { quant i t ies will undoubted- 

 ties. Smaller shipments of Redwood { new markets th hout the 

 have been made to the east coast of ij j -,1, j j- 

 South America, France, Germany and rld ' and ^ the improved condi- 

 South Africa. Earlier shipments of tlons for , marketing their products, be- 

 Clear Redwood to Australia and Great cause of the Panama Canal and the 

 Britian were largely heavy plank in the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the Red- 

 green state. Recently both of these wood manufacturers of California are 

 countries have begun to realize the looking forward to a period of pros- 

 advantage of purchasing seasoned mater- perity that will increase by leaps and 

 ial in the sizes that are actually going bounds as the true worth of their wood 

 to be used, and as many of the mills are is recognized in a greater degree. 



AN EFFECTIVE FORESTRY EXHIBIT 



NEW JERSEY made an exhibit made of blight-killed chestnut. Telling 

 at the Trenton Interstate Fair placards showed that this fence com- 

 which appears to have gone a pared favorably in cost and in dura- 

 long way toward presenting bility with any of the modern forms, 

 the aims and methods of forestry to the The central feature within the enclosure 

 people, especially to the farmers, who was a slab cabin 2 Q feet by 25 feet in 



ma y b % mt T St6 ^ aS T 1 n6rS - which w ere exhibited large pictures of 



^ /TQ 011 , Jf ' annually at f operations, a collection of forestry 



the end of September, usually attracts , . 



upwards of 150,000 people from all over tools etc. Outside the cabin were dis- 



New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. P la y ed va nous local forest products, 



A very large proportion of them are each labeled in a way to show the visitor 



farmers who seek information as well as its va ^e as a forest product apart from 



amusement. its worth as merchandise. A special 



The forestry exhibit was established effort was made to label everything 



on a lot 55 feet by 100 feet surrounded shown in a way to convey the sort of 



by an old-fashioned post and rail fence information that a visitor was most 





