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In ottering cooperative service, however, it has been necessary to 

 place certain hniitations upon the work which will be accepted. The 

 laboratory does not desire to engage in mere routine testing, and it is 

 not its purpose to do so. To meet all requests of this character w^ould 

 require many times its present appropriation. Especially does it 

 avoid a type of routine work that could be readily done by an industry 

 through the installation of simple testing machinery, at reasonable 

 cost, by the industry itself. Advice on such installations will invari- 

 ably be given if desired. It is not its purpose to promote one product 

 as against another, but to present facts which will enable the public and 

 the industries to put wood to its best use. It has therefore adopted as 

 one of its underlying principles of this cooperative work that it will not 

 accept any project the results of which will not be of some general 

 value and application. As between two pieces of cooperative work, 

 only one of which the laboratory could undertake, the one would be 

 accepted which it appeared would give results of broadest application. 



The conditions under which this cooperative service is rendered 

 are: 



( 1 ) The laboratory will plan and carry out the tests of investi- 

 gations desired and will prepare the necessary report. The coop- 

 erator will pay all expenses incidental to the work. He will be 

 charged actual cost of work only. The laboratory does not render 

 cooperative services on a profit basis. In cases wliere the work is 

 of direct value in furthering the regular research program of the 

 laboratory, the cost is often divided between the laboratory and 

 the cooperator. 



(2) The laboratory shall have the unrestricted right to publish 

 and distribute tlic residts o])tained from the investigation. The 

 cooj^erator shall not publish for general distribution any state- 

 ments or reports commiting the laboratory unless specific ap- 

 proval is first obtained. Experience has shown this restriction 

 necessary as a protection to the laboratory, the cooperator, and 

 the public against possible misuse of data obtained and against 

 dissemination of incomplete and misleading results. The value 

 of the laboratory's work depends upon the authenticity of its re- 

 sults and the confidence which the public and the industries can 

 ])lace in them at all time. 



(3) Results are not subject to private patent. 



