Second Farm Building Conference Draws Good Attendance

J, F. Holmes, President, Sacramento V alley. L*mbermets Club

That marked headwav has been made towards closer cooperation between the tniversity-of -California Extension Service workers and retail lumber-dealers, in the matter,of solving farm structure problems' was clea-rly indi93te.d..by the inierest shown bv dealers in the second Farm Building Conference held at tlie University Farm at Davis, Saturday, September 21.

the conference was in the form of a joint meeting of the Sacramento Vallev Lumbermen's Club and the Central California Lumberme-n's Club, with the Division of 4gticultur.t Engineering of the University of California' Defi' nite progresi was m-ade when the club! decided to appoint a .o*ntitil. of dealers to meet with the university faculty members to formulate Dlans for future meetings'

Professor H. B. Walker, head of the Division of Agricu-ltural Engineering presided at the morning session, and in his opening remallis spoke as follows: i. i. Hoi*"., Woodland Lumber Co., Woodland, preside'ni of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club, presided

"The Un"iversity Far-m is glad to wetcome the lumbermen and material dealers to Dav'is. An agricultural experiment ti"tio" has the responsibility of seekinC--4q- securing.facts i"i"ti"e to the industry of agriculture. -While much that is i"totala in experim"tit"l *itk is founded upon scientific ohenomena. these facts to be useful to farm operators, must Le translated into sound economic practice. The Univerrit". intou"h itt E*t"ttsion Service, enddavors to do this, Uoi'.tt.r "-11 "tt educational institution sells ideas rather than material things. This is particularly true reg.arding farm buildings. Our institutign- may create a deslre tor better poultr] houses, more efficient dairy.barns, adequate hog houses,'improved hay barns and better farm homes bui before 'thesi structuris become a reality -the farmer must secure his building materials from the s_ervice agencres i; hir community-the- material dealers. Your service to ifr. f"r-i, is important and we should better understand ""ri pi"Lt.-t "hd you should know more about ours if !".f, 6i us is to render a real service to practical farmers.

For these reasons your visit is most timely and -welcome and it is our desireio make this conference mutually inter' esting and profitabte."

"Swine Production Structures", was the subject of a talk by Professor E. H. Hughes, Division- of Animal Science. This talk was illustrated-by slides, and proved most interesting.

H. L. Belton, Division of Agricultural Engineering, spoke on "Livestock Equipment", &hihjting samples oi built-up equipment such as hog crates, turkgf- coops' -alfalfa feede-rs, cdickett nests and var-ious types of dry mash feeders. Ira E. Brink, The Diamond Mitch Co., Chico; 14"+ E. !o*' California Redwood Association; E. S. McBridc, Davis Lumber Co., and Harvey Isenhower, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co. took part in tht discussion on Qis subject.

Miss Jessie Lee Decker, Extension-lp{ialist i" 4q-9 Furnishings, was the next speaker.Miss Decker's -subjnt was "The"Farm Home". "Arierican farmers need to be educated to the value of a sood home", she said- "City houses don't fit farms. Our iJb is to advise farmers to build the right kind of house fbr the farm." The speaker advised d&lers to sell good material to the farmer, and to talk quality rather thai price, and told in detail the recommendati6ns made by hir department for the improvement of the farm home.

In the discussion following Miss Decker's tdk, Ray'nond Spenier, Spencer Lumber C-o., Walnut Creek, stressed the toiii of ityitg to save on the cost of the roof or foundation of a house.

The showing of the motion picture "Transformation", "r"au.J bv tf,e National Lumber Manufacturers' Associitil"."a ttie American Farm Bureau Federation, concluded the morning session.

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at the luncheon session, which was held in the California fnn on the Campus, where all present were the guests of the University Farm.

Warren S. Tillson, The Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto, president of the Central California Lumbermen's Club, ex' pressed his appreciation of the help given by the university in selling the idea of remodeling, and suggested the formation of a committee of lumbermen to determine just what are the mutual problems of the lumbermen and the Agricultural Engineering Division of the University, and then to get together with the university and try to solve these problems.

On motion of J. F. Holmes it was decided to appoint this committee.

J. U. Gartin, Modesto, and Ira E. Brink, Chico, discussed this matter, both supporting the idea of working more closely with the university.

Max E. Cook, Farmstead Engineer, in charge of the Agricultural Department of the California Redwood Association, expressed the appreciation of his association for the help cheerfully given 6y the university in the standardization of Redwood furrow tubes. Any number of small structures and accessories fo'r the farm recommended by the university can be built and sold by lumber dealers, he said. Mr. Cook predicted that within a short time farmers will be building cold storage rooms out of materials supplied by the lumber yards, using standard electrical equipment.

An address on "Building Construction Costs" by A. W. Holt, Long Beach, author of Holt's Rapid Estimator. In the course of this Mr. Holt conducted an interesting guessing contest with the avowed idea of showing the superiority of his method over the method of figuring the cost of a house on the square foot cost basis.

A tour of the Universitv Farm concluded the conference.

Importations of Philippine Woods During Second Quarter 1930

The shipments of Philippine lumber into the United States during the se,cond quarter of the current year amounted to 7,500,000 board feet; this quantity represents a decrease of 27 per cent under that of the second quartgl of. 1929. Of tha total imports approximately 3,330,000 board feet, or about 32 per'cent, were entered through the Atlantic and Gulf ports.

The Philippine lumber imports during the period under review and ai compiled frorrr the Custom House records in Manila, Iloilo, Le Gaspi, Zamboanga and Cebu were as follows:

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7.501.003

In addition to the above quantities there rvere received through Paci'fic coast ports over half a million feet of thin lumber and veneers as follows:

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