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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1917 



Courtesy, Grand Trunk Railway System. 

 In the Kawartha Lakes Region of Ontario 



Cutting Down Waste in Wood Mills 



As a result of suggestions made by 

 a number of Coast and Mountain 

 lumbermen. Hon. T. D. PattuUo, 

 Minister of Lands in British Colum- 

 bia, has taken steps to ascertain if 

 something worth while cannot be 

 accomplished 'n the way of utilizing 

 more of the waste products of our 

 sawmills and box-making plants. To 

 this end Mr. L. B. Beale, B. C. Lum- 

 ber Commissioner at Toronto, has 

 been summoned to the Coast for a 

 couple of months in order to conduct 

 the preliminary investigations. Mr. 

 Beale has a thoroughly practical 

 mind, and being so eciuipped it may 

 be taken for granted that if he makes 

 a recommendation in favor of the 

 utilization of any particular class of 

 waste materials common to sawmills 

 and box plants — and perhaps our 



woodworking factories also — the la- 

 boratory chemist or other highly 

 trained expert may be called in with 

 reasonable certainty that the pro- 

 position will be pronounced a feasible 

 one. The feeling is general in the 

 lumber industry that too much of the 

 log is wasted in the manufacture of 

 lumber according to present methods, 

 but solace appears to be found in the 

 trite phrase, "Everyone is doing it." 

 The millman who refuses to bestow 

 some thought upon this question of 

 utilization of timber waste is un- 

 doubtedly making a mistake — the 

 matter is already engaging the serious 

 attention of prominent lumbermen 

 on both sides of the line, who realize 

 the seriousness of the tremendous 

 economic waste involved in leaving 

 25 per cent, of the original tree in the 



