THE L. W. BLINN LUMBER COMPANY

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Oregon Agricultural College, I believe, has recently provided every retail lumber dealer in Oregon (outside of the larger cities) with a full set of farm building ciiculars and in addition, several blueprint plans of poultry houses and accessories most in demand. T'his is a commendable practice, indeed, and will unquestionably accomplish very constructive and satisfying results.

Many of our state colleges have from time to time inspired at least intermittent action by arranging conferences between agricultural engineers and lumbermen. Numerous demonstration building projects have been arranged for the benefit of all interests and very substantial contributions in the way of plans and counsel have been extended to building trade associations and building material manufacturers who in turn have passed much of this information on to the farmer in the form of advertising literature.

This is all in the right direction, but there is yet need for a r4uch closer working relationship, with the lumber interests in particular, to bring the retail lumber dealer, whom you might say is out on the "firing line," into complete sympathy with our eftort. To do this, it is imperative that we furnish him with plans in such form as to fully meet his requirements.

To indicate to an appreciable extent, I hope, something of the possibilities in promoting better farm structures and needed improvements on the farm by securing the aid of the retail lumber dealer, through a process of helping him to help himself, I should like to submit a brief outline of some of my own efforts in this direction.

With years of close daily contact with faimers, country carpenters and contractors, retail lumber dealers and others, in the development of all classes of farm buildings under varied conditions, I long ago became convinced of the absolute necessity of designing a given structure, not only to