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Canadian Forestry Journal, February, ipi6. 



for the oversea shipment of dry 

 goods and groceries. Kraft card- 

 board is used in making dress suit 

 cases. Embossed Kraft paper is 

 used for wall papers, book covers 

 and the covering for fancy boxes. 



Iiuitation Leather. 

 Very good imitation leather is 

 made from Kraft paper. Stripped 

 into narrow rolls Ys" wide it is run 

 through a machine which gums one 

 side. The gummed side is then 

 spread with a fine lint of cotton or 

 linen. These strips are run in a 

 spinning machine and twisted into 

 threads, the cotton and linen fibres 

 protruding as a thin fuzz. These 

 threads are afterwards woven into 

 various fabrics, such as imitation 

 burlap used in wall paper, heavy 

 cloth for upholstering furniture, 

 grain bags, tailors' linings for suits 

 of clothes, cotton and linen towels, 

 webbing, straps for surcingles, etc. 

 By the introduction of colored 

 threads, pleasing designs are worked 

 into the fabrics. It is sometimes 

 stamped in colors in the same man- 

 ner as cotton cloths. Small twine 

 made of twisted Kraft paper is used 

 in tying up bundles ; for weaving in- 

 to coarse matting; and as a warp for 

 rugs and carpets. Twisted into 

 many strands it is woven into all 

 sizes of rope, particularly laundry 

 and window rope and binder twine 

 for harvesting machines. To add 

 strength it is sometimes spun on a 

 hemp core. 



Ez'eii JJ^ater Pipes. 



By a new patented process our 

 company is now producing paper 

 pipe wound over cores of various 

 diameters and made in various thick- 

 nesses, which is thoroughly per- 

 meated with a tar compound, fodm- 

 ing a strong compact paper pipe, 

 capable of taking a thread and 

 lighter and less expensive and more 

 durable than iron pipe. This is used 

 for various purposes, such as under- 

 ground conduits for electric wires 

 and for resisting the action of vari- 



ous corrosive acids, especially in 

 coal mines. 



And Baby Carriages. 



Kraft paper could be easily adapt- 

 ed to the same use discovered by a 

 Japanese during the Russian war 

 who invented a soft, tough and wa- 

 terproof paper. They also made it 

 into paper sheets which could be 

 folded into a small package and 

 which would keep out dampness. 

 There are other uses for this paper, 

 such as for napkins, handkerchiefs, 

 paper plates, cups, pails and other 

 articles too numerous to mention, 

 but the most surprising use it has 

 been put to is that one-eighth inch 

 strips shellaced and twisted are used 

 in manufacturing articles of furni- 

 ture in the place of, or in conjunction 

 with, rattan, such as chairs, tables 

 and baby carriages. So that it 

 would appear that there was a pro- 

 fit in changing wood into pulp, mak- 

 ing the pulp into paper, and turning 

 the paper back again into wood. 

 Chloroform and Cloth. 



From these illustrations you may 

 see that the process of the utilization 

 of the by-products during the pro- 

 gress of the tree from the forest to 

 the consumer is carried on at every 

 step in its manufacture, producing 

 such widely different articles as 

 chloroform and cloth, iron pipe and 

 lard, and yet the possibilities inher- 

 ent in the ingredients of wood have 

 hardly been scratched, when it is 

 born in mind that in each chemical 

 process nearly one-half of the ac- 

 tual weight of the wood is thrown 

 away as irreclaimably valueless. 



Mr. Punch's Charivaria in the 

 last number to hand says: "A Ber- 

 lin professor, lecturing on the use 

 of trees as fodder, stated that ex- 

 periments have already been made 

 in feeding- dogs with beech-wood. 

 It is hoped that in time these in- 

 telligent animals will be trained to 

 subsist upon their own bark." 



