SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
This co-operation can be brought about first by a close study of the 
needs of the industries and an effort to meet these needs by investigation 
of their difficulties. Search can be made to find materials suitable to 
their needs, methods of saving waste, reducing costs, or increasing 
efficiency developed: The results of the investigations must be made 
known to the industries in the way of reports, articles in trade journals, 
and by circulars to special industries. ; 
The services of the technical staff must be readily available in an 
advisory capacity, with restrictions to prevent individuals from getting 
the sole benefit of such work. 
Another way in which the laboratory can serve the industries is 
by training technical officers, who can then transfer their services from 
the laboratory to the factory. This, of course, must be limited. In 
other words, the laboratory must offer sufticient inducement to officers 
to prevent their being tempted out too soon or too often. At Montreal 
I found that the greater part of the staff had left within a few months 
to go into industrial positions. This, of course, prevents continuity 
in work, and destroys the chance of obtaining experts. The paper 
trade, for example, after it had taken all the paper experts from the ' 
_ laboratory, found that the source of its supply had been destroyed, and 
set to work to persuade the Government to pay reasonable salaries to 
the officers of the laboratory. This danger must be avoided. 
Co-o0PERATION. 
The general policy of co-operation must, of course, be so constructed 
that the laboratory cannot be used to take the place of consulting tech- 
nologists. It is not desirable that this should be possible. ‘The govern- 
ing idea in other Forest Products Laboratories is that, unless something 
new is to be learned by an investigation, it will not be undertaken. If, 
however, there is no other source from which an industry can obtain 
advice, and where there is nothing fresh to learn, but only the applica- 
tion of information already established, then advice is given, but a 
charge is made. ‘This charge can be reduced, at the discretion of the 
laboratory, to the extent that fresh information of value is gained during — 
the course of the work. The laboratory always has in mind all such 
arrangements that, while it exists to assist industries, it must not be 
used for the exclusive advantage of any one factory or individual. 
In all co-operation on an extensive scale an agreement is drawn up 
setting out the obligation as to payments, supply of material, reports on 
resulis in the factory, &é., by the industry concerned; and, on the other 
hand, the obligations of the laboratory. It is always stipulated that 
the laboratory shall have unrestricted right to publish the results of 
investigations. wh 
Tn India Haison officers move about the country and study the indus- 
tries. They find out what materials they need, and where they are 
obtainable. If an industry in any way depends upon the use of a forest 
_ product, inquiries are made to see how supplies of this may be made 
available, and the factories supplying this material are helped, by advice 
or otherwise, to produce the required amount. 
____ The system of technical notes issued by the Madison Laboratory also 
helps to bring industries in close contact with its work. ° These notes 
are brief accounts of results of work done, advice to industries, &c. They 
‘ire sent out monthly to the industries interested. 
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