Will Address Lumber Dealers Exhibit Features Motion in Western States

Seattle, Wash., May 16.-Suggestions for helping farmers to increase their profits through making a proper and more extensive use of lumber is being carried to more than l5 groups of lumber dealers in the Western states by Otto Hartwig, a field representative of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Mr. Hartwig's talks are being given at meetings conducted under the auspices of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association.

Mr. Hartwig will feature the experience of a lumber firm in Eugene, Oregon, which sent salesmen to the surrounding farms to talk over building problems and needs with the farmers. The salesmen, after studying a farm, were able to give the owner many practical suggestions and to help him work out particular building problems. The result was a more extensive use of lumber and improved and more efficiently equipped farms.

The importance of providing adequate shelter for poultry, livestock and farm machinery is being stressed. Wise use of lumber, Mr. Hartwig is pointing out, will cut down the loss of farm stock and poultry from disease, will result in stronger and sturdier animals, will increase milk and egg production and will protect farm machinery from the attack of rust.

_ Practical plans covering almost every farm use of lumber are available to farmers and lumbir dealers from the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Mr. Hartwig is urgi_ng _a greater use of this material in increasing farm profits -by making an effective use of lumber for the proper kind of buildings and equipment.

Mr. Hartwig will speak to dealer groups in the following to_wns: Phoenix, Arizona; La Junta, Limon, Sterling and Greeley, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Pocatello and Boise, Idaho ; Billings and Great Falls, Montana; Pullman, Walla Walla, Yakima, Wenatchee and Mount Vernon. Washington.

Los Angeles Lumbermen Attend Arizona Convention

_ LeRoy ltanton, E. J. Stanton & Son; "Friday" Freeland, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Frank Curran, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; L. A. Beckstrom, L. W. Blinn Lumber 9o.; L. S. Turnbull,The McCloud River Lumber Co.; Harvey Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporat_ion; Tom Dant, Fir-Tex Co.; Dewey Reeder, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co.; E. U. Wheelock, E. U. Wheelock, Inc.; and F. A. Goodrich, Union Lumber Co., were among the Los Angeles lumbermen who attended the annual c-onvention of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona, held at Phoenix on May 15, 16 and 17.