Of Interest to All Lumbermen

Permanent Forest Week Assured

Washington, Oct.8.-That the purpose and achievements of the Amirican Forest Week Committee have been highly productive and should be continued and extended, was {9termined by the American Forest Week Committee which met in Waihington, September 28. The call for the meeting which had 6een'seni out by Honorable Frank O. Lowde"n, chairman, met with genirous response. More than thirty-five representatives of co-operating associations were present, and without exception there was enthusiastic supirort for the plan of permanent organization, which was submitted.

Ur$es Conservation

On Novemb er 21,1924, the President of the United States, in a public address to 40O selected representatives of- produceis, distributors and consumers of forest products, called upon them to conserve, protect and restore the nation's timber supplies.

This plea, in bitratf of the .pgblic welfare, was addressed to persons, organizations and industries -representing- over forty billions of dollars in invested capital, and using forest oroducts in some form. ^

These organizations and industries have responded t-o- the President's-request. The National Committee on Wood Utilization hai been organized under auspices of the Federal government.

Thi wood using industries in the aggregate are spe,nding millions of dollars to solve-in a practical and profitable way-what the President has aptly described as a public problem "of the first magnitude."

Lumber Supply and Demand SurveY

Washington, D. C., Oct. 8.-One of- the most important and far-reiching proposals that have. been made in an effortto secure moie definite information in relation to the economics of lumber supply and demand' was a suggestion submitted at the annuJl-meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association in Chicago, last April, to institutea periodic lumber supply and -dem-and survey-. -The matter ir no* under consideration by the board of directors bf the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and contemplates that the members of the Economics and Trade Exteirsion Committees would be likewise members of the proposed lumber sufvey committee.

Recent Publications Of Lumber Division

Based uporr extensive personal field study in France and the Netherlands, and on a month's close observation of lumber conditions in Belgium and Switzerland, four reports of Mr. Axel'H. Oxholm, Chief of the Lumber Division, Department of Commerce, have recently been published:

THE FRENCH LUMBER MARKET,4O0 pages,65c.

LUMBER MARKET OF THE NETHERLANDS, Trade Information Bulletin No. 4, 233 pages, 45c.

AMERICAN LUMBER IN BELGIUM, Trade Information Bulletin No. 36I, 45 Pages, 10c.

AMERICAN LUMBER IN SWITZERLAND- Trade Information Bulletin No. 353, 21 pages, 10c.

These four bulletins may be purchased, at the prices indicated, from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

Facts Of Interest

In this country 50,000,000 people pay annual premiums of $2,500,000,000 for life insurance, the protection aggregating $64,000,000,000. Insurance sales are increasing ra-pidly. bf nearly 1000 companies which have spru,ng up in the automobilg manufactuiing field in the last 25 years, only 356 marketed a car, and about 75 passenger car makers survive. Last year, 96 per cent of the total output came from 18 companies.

The innual income of the United States rose from $27,100,000,000 in 1909 to $62,736,o00,000 in L921, the National Bureau of Economic Research finds. Per capita average income of gainfully employed rose from $791 in 19@ to $1537 in 1921.

The American public is estimated to have increased its purchases of goods on installment to $3,000,000,000. Ninety -per cent of low priced automobiles and 50 per cent of high priced ones bre bought on installment, involving $1,000,000,000 annually, it is estimated.

A glance over the statistical picture of the first six months of. 1925 discloses the fact that new high records were attained in the production of automobiles, silk, cement, cigarettes, lumber, gasoline and tires; in building construction, in freight car movemtnts, and in life insurance sales.

Coniferous Trees As A Farm Crop

Profitable crops may be obtained from the poorer areas on many farms by planting coniferous trees. Even in small sizes the conifers may be sold at a profit as Christmas trees, and in the large sizes they have an assured market for lumber or pulpwood. As a class they promise earlier and larger money returns to the farmer than other kinds of trees. Conifers are also very effective as windbreaks. And although they grow best on rich, deep, well-drained soils, some species of conifers-the pines in particular-will ordinarily take hold better than hardwoods on poor soils, such as worn-out fields or pastures, sandy areas, cut-over and burned-over woodlands. and areas with shallow soil.

DRY.ROT IN BUILDINGS

California home owners should get acquainted with the work of fungi, those plant organisms which cause the decay of wood, according to Emanuel Fritz, Professor of Lumbering in the Division of Forestry of the University of California. Professor Fritz says that because of improper design or improper care of a home or other wooden structure, these fungi are likely to cause the owner considerable loss, and that it should be the duty of the lumber dealer and the builder to form a better knowledge of how fungi act and how their entrance into a structure may be prevented. The dealer and builder both owe such service to the prospective home owner and, in fact, to the entire lumber industry in quieting a criticism of lumber for a lack of permanence. "We receive many requests from the owners of homes, factories, and even "movie" houses for advice in controlling the spread of the decay in their structures. In each case the remedy is simple though it may, in some cases, be costly. The fungus causing the decay or "disease" of the wood isalow order of plant life which absorbs or "eats" portions of the wood cells for its food. There are many fungi which prey upon wood but those giving the greatest trouble are the "dry-rot fungi," so called because their work transforms the wood into a dry, brown mass which crumbles to a fine powder when crushed between the fingers. All fungi require a certain amount of moisture and warmth to li-.'e. If the supplies of these reach certain minima the fungus can not develop. Food, for example, when stored in an icebox, will not rot. Obviously, a house can not be kept so cool as to arrest the growth of fungi, but it can be kept dry. The simplest remedy, therefore, is to keep all wooden portions of the structure away from contact with the moist soil. The sills should be a foot or more above the ground surface and should be laid on concrete or stone. When a new building is completed, especially where there is no basement and the floor joists are close to the ground, the contractor or owner should make certain that no refuse, sticks or boards project from the ground to a wooden member. Decay may be transmitted through such refuse to a house. F'urthermore, underthe-house spaces should be well ventilated to promote dryness. Leaky plumbing and rain conductors, or the spraying from the garden hose are also prolific sources of moisture to give fungi their start.

Dry wood will not rot and will last indefinitely. But once started, the decay may spread over a large area before being detected, in which case drastic means for eradicating it are fullyjustified. First of all, the decayed wood must be cutout and along with it much of the adjacent portions even though they appear to be sound wood. This latter is important as the "roots" of the fungus penetrate the wood far in advance of the more apparent "rot". The portions removed should be burned. The design responsible for the entrance or holding of water should be corrected or the source of the offending moisture removed. The repairs should be made with sound 'ivood, preferably of a durable species. Sometimes it is desirable to spray the grottnd and old wood surfaces with a preservative like zinc chloride or creosote, or to use new lumber that has been thoroughly impregnated with such preservatives. The old adage, 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,' is particularly true in the case of a house ifit is to be kept free from decay. Keep the wood dry and itwill not rot."

Uses C. L. M. Editorial

Harry C. Westover, hustiing manager for the Frank Husselman Lumber Company, at Santa Ana, has made use of an editorial that appeared in a recent issue of "The California Lumber Merchant."

This company has issued a large poster, headed "One Price and Only One", making reference to the editorial and reprinting it in full.

The editorial .in question was titled "The Stick-'EmIf-You-Can Method" of selling Building Materials", by Jack Dionne.

In the advertisdment Harry had this to say:

For the past three years lve have had only one price for our building materials. They have been as lorv as was consistent with good business. but regardless of local situations rve have maintained one price. We do not have a few favorite customers whom 'w'e prefer as to price. Everyone is treated the same.

The following article from the California Lumber Merchant expresses our views exactly.

Cedar Shingle Facts

It is conceded the gross output of Red Cedar Shingles for the year 1926 will run approximately 10,000,000,000, this representing an approximate income to the manufacturer of $30.500,000 gross for the Year.

If the 10,000,000,000 shingles 'ivere loaded in cars of 200,000 average each, it would require 50,000- cars to transport the outpul of nearly 600 trainloads, figuring an average of 85 cars each. If all the shingles manufactured were laid in a rorv, side by side, it would make a strip nearly 530,000 miles long, or 2il times the circumference of the earth, or rvould shingle a strip nearly 9 feet wide 25,000 miles long if laid S-inch weather exposure, and rvould shingle 830,000 houses, furnishing shelter for 3,320,000 people or a city approximately the size of Chicago.

The entire output, figuring shipping 1,800,000,000 pounds or 900,000 tons 1,250,000,000 feet of logs for the year's weight, will exceed and would require output.

National Forest Timber Receipts Soar

Washington, D. C., Oct. 3.-Breaking all records in the history of the United States Forest Service receipts from the sale of National Forest timber for the first quarter of this fiscal year amounted to $1,055,165, according to telegraphic dispatches received by the Chief Forester today.

This is the first time, forest officials point out, that timber sale receipts for any quarter year have ever topped a million dollars.

It is not expected that any of the remaining three-quarters of the fiscal year rvill touch this high level, since the summer is the logger's busy season in the western mountains. Timber sales on the National Forests have been increasing and norv bring to the Federal Treasury over $3,000,000 vearlv.

Proposes Moving Yard

The city of El l\{onte is to have a City Park, on railroad property, in case it is possible to arrange to move the yard of Patten & Davies, according to a report.

The Pacific Electric Company has offered the land, at a favorable lease, for park purposes,

Noted Hardwood Man Passes Away

John N. Penrod, head of the Penrod Walnut and Veneer Company, Kansas City, and interested in other hardwood concerns, passed away at his home on the 29th of September. He was one of the best known of walnut men in the country and was familiarly known as "IJncle John."

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