their competitors that we may look forward 

 to the time when the advantages of indus- 

 trial research will be recognized by all. 



Industrial scientific research departments 

 can reach their highest development in 

 those concerns doing the largest amount 

 of business. While instances are not want- 

 ing where the large growth of the institu- 

 tion is the direct result of the care which 

 is bestowed upon industrial research at a 

 time when it was but a small concern, 

 . nevertheless conditions to-day are such that 

 without cooperation among themselves the 

 small concerns can not have the full benefits 

 of industrial research, for no one among 

 them is sufficiently strong to maintain the 

 necessary staff and laboratories. Once the 

 vital importance of this subject is appre- 

 ciated by the small manufacturers many 

 solutions of the problem will promptly ap- 

 pear. One of these is for the manufacturer 

 to take his problem to one of the industrial 

 research laboratories already established 

 for the purpose of serving those who can 

 not afford a laboratory of their own. Other 

 manufacturers doing the same, the financial 

 encouragement received would enable the 

 laboratories to extend and improve their 

 facilities so that each of the small manu- 

 facturers who patronizes them would in 

 course of time have the benefit of an insti- 

 tution similar to those maintained by our 

 largest industrial concerns. 



Thus, in accordance with the law of 

 supply and demand, the small manufac- 

 turer may obtain the benefits of industrial 

 research in the highest degree and the 

 burden upon each manufacturer would be 

 only in accordance with the use he made of 



