Forest Research Activities Marked by Good Progress

Eight regional Forest Experiment Stations and the Forest Products Laboratory are now in operation, according to the annual report made by the Chief of the Forest Service to the Secretary of Agriculture. In addition, a netv Forest Experiment Station is being established in the Pacific Northwest. A station for California is urged by Chief Forester Greeley in his report.

The eight Experiment Stations now in operation .1Ie io_cated at New Orleans, La.; Missoula, Mont.; Asheville, N. C.; Amherst, Mass.; St. Paul, Minn.; Portland, Ore.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Colorado Springs, Colo.

The Forest Products Laboratory, located at Madison, Wis., made the study of wood waste prevention one of its' chief activities, the report states. This resulted in a tional conference called by the late Henry C. Wallace, retary of Agriculture, and rvhich was attended by about representatives of timber producing, manufacturing, consuming industries.

The Laboratory also continued its study of the dimension-stock requirements of various industries with a vierv of reducing the numbers of different sizes needed in commerce and thus simplify the problem of making and buying dimension stock.

Much progress was also made, according to the report, in imporlanf phases of the preservative treatment of timber, in paper and pulp research, and in investigating kilndrying and air-seasoning methods. This latter activ_i_ty involved elaborate tests of airplane rvoods for the United States Navy and resulted in many practical aclvantages.

In referring to the work of the Forest Experiment Stations the report states:

"Already it has become evident that these stations are certain to'be of prime importance in hastening the general practice of forestry within their several regions. Their influence is partly due to the fact that they become centers about which gather the interest and activities favorable to progress in forestry. Thus they perform a function of ieadership. They are valuable sources of information and advice both to public agencies and to private owners interested in forestry as well as instrumentalities for correlating and directing investigative undertakings along the mosi fruitful lines. They will undoubtedly be of the utmost value in helping the States to formulate policies of forestry, as rvell as por'r'erful influences making for its private practlce.

MOVES OFF'ICES

The Hudson l,umber Company, Lynnwood, has moved their general offices from the original buildings, to a more commbdious building, in the heart of Lynnwood.

The building that they now occupy tl'as formerly used in the district as a Public Librarv.

Makes Improvements

H. B. Bruce, manager of the Antelope Valley Lumber Company, Lancaster, has just completed extensive alterationJ and additions to their office building. They have added a paint and hard'ivare department.