Convention Season on in Full Blast

This is lumber ,convention season.

From January first until spring there is a continual string of lumber meetings throughout the United States. To some extent tl-rey use overlapping clays, but since during recent years effort has been made to prevent overlapping dates as much as possible, it is now feasable for a man to attend a large number of the retail csnventions ii he desires, with just time to ju,r-np from one to the other.

The spread of the merchandising idea has developed the attendance of individuals, speakers, journalists, etc., at many of these meetings, so the elimination of duplicate dates has been of value.

The change in lumber'convention programs between the present and the old days is very noticeable. N{ost associations now devote their attention to the discussion of the practical problems of their business, to the encl that the

J. W. JOHNSOT{ AND \^I. L. DUGAN AT HEAD OF THE DRY KILN CONSTRUCTION CO.

This company in Los Angeles for the past two years, is going after the dry kiln business in an agressive ,manner. They are offering the dealers a plan of install,ing a large bat'tery of kilns at the icoast, and point out the many advantages of having the drying done here rather than iir the north. Both men have had years of experience in this business, and their company is prepared to install any kind of a kiln.