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The cooperative service offered by the laboratory is thus an effort 

 to aid the industries, at niininium expense, in a larger way than would 

 be possible by limiting activities exclusively to the work authorized by 

 annual appropriations from Congress. It in no way commercializes 

 the work of the laboratory, because all information available on any 

 phase of wood utilization is furnished free upon request or through 

 personal consultation. But sj^ecial problems, involving additional 

 data and investigations outside its regular program of research, can be 

 handled only under the conditions stated. 



Individuals or companies, by referring their wood problems to 

 the laboratory, may obtain in advance a statement of the tests or in- 

 vestigations thought necessary to their solution and an estimate of the 

 cost. Communications should })e addressed to the Director, Forest 

 Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. 



