Is There a Wood Famine Coming? 55 



what they formerly threw away, and thus get 

 profit from the whole of a felled tree instead of 

 wasting part of it. 



A maker of brush-backs informed the office that 

 he could use only the heartwood of the birch tree, 

 and a spool-maker said he could use only the 

 sapwood. Their factories were less than a hun- 

 dred miles apart, and yet each had been wasting 

 what the, other needed. 



The office of Wood Utilization corresponded 

 with these men, and as a result each uses the 

 other's waste. 



A manufacturer wrote asking, " Where can I 

 find a market for scraps of cypress which are of 

 various widths and from one to four feet long? " 

 The office told him where to sell them, and they 

 now are made into boxes for plug tobacco. 



A maker of veneer asked what he could do with 

 the cores which remained after the outer wood of 

 his logs had been pared off to be used in his fac- 

 tory. He was advised to sell them for rollers to 

 carry cable in coal mines. The cores fortunately 

 happened to be of the same length and thickness 

 as the regulation mine-roller, so it was only neces- 

 sary to bore a hole in the center of each for a 

 metal rod to go through. And now the most 

 profitable part of that man's business is, not the 

 manufacture of veneers, but the sale of mine- 

 rollers. The Bureau was founded in 1909, so its 

 career of usefulness is just begun. It has been 



