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ThevilucofD&glasFirh"T*T4 is particularlyaqpareot rn ttrc common gradcs. tramrng, JoBts, rattefs,studs, etc., usually all hcartnoo4 r€oain remarkably dean; bright and sound. They tesist vaqping and nuistiqg to a remarkable dcsree.

Douglr. Fir heartryood is, above all, desirable for potch flooring-,windowsillsrpulley stiles, sash, watertables andbther woodw6rk on which water is apt to collect.

Extedor trimrsidingrcasi'So ind columns from whic! water drains rapidly nood not alwap be hearnvood, forwell draincd sapwood-is nearlv as durable as heartwood.

How To Specify Your Lumber

Washington, Nov. 3.-A complete resume,of American Lumber Standards as formulated and revised after several years of co-operation bet#een the Department of Commerce, the United States Forest Service and the Central Committee on Lumber Standards will soon ,be published and distributed by the department, The ,committee."has issued a circular letter to a large number of interested associations, corporations and indiiiduals calling their attentidn to the indisptnsability of this lumber standards compilation to all who make, sell, buy and use lumber.

Every home-builder and lumber dealer ought to have a copy oi this government publication befor'e he orders ,a bill of lumber. It tells him what lumber qualities and sizes are, and how to designate them intelligibly.

Lumber manufacture throughout the length and breadth of the United States is now under one system of grades and sizes. Familiarity with this system is essential. The last standardization conference made some important amendments and additions, so that copies of previous publications of the standardization rules are now obsolete.

The Division of Simplified Practice of the Department of Commerce or the Central Committee on Lumber Standards, 'Washington, D. C., will fill without charge all requests for copies of the bulletin-No, 16.

Trade Extension Plans Presented To Box Manufacturers

Before the 27th Semi-Annual Convention of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers, October 13 to 15, Arthur T. Upson, Consulting Engineer of the National Lumber Manufaiturers' Association, outlined for Mr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager, the plans of the National Lumber Trade Extension Committee and the results so far attained in the campaign for subscriptions by lumber manufacturers to the proposed fund of a million dollars a year for five years for trade promotion purposes.

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In explaining the geniral program, the inroads made in lumber -consumption by competing materials during the past fifteen years were cited, and the urgent needs were brought out for aggressive action on the part of the lumber industry to put wood back into its Proper places of use, and to extend those uses. Among the means by which those objectives could be attained Mr. Upson stated lumber producers, generally, intended to improve, insofar as possible, manuficturing practices, grading, seasoning and handling, all on the basis of the American Standards for Softwood Lumber, and otherwise to put lumber in the l:est possible condition for a majority of the general lumber uses. This would be followed by proper methods of rnerchandising wherein the governing factor would be the proper wood for the proper use with less emphasis on a wood universally suitable for all purposes. In addition, lumber manufacturers would establish through grade marking, trade marking and otherwise the rightful differential *hich should exist between lumber well manufacttrred from average or better timber, properly graded and sedsoned, and that produced from inefficient sawi'nill machinery, seldom if ever graded and scarcely seasoned, if at all, and dumped on the market to the detriment of the better class.

Walter Fifer Returns To Pacific Coast

Walter R. Fifer, well-known Pacific Coast lumberman, has returned to the Coast from Marion, Ohio, where he has been for some time manager of the Pacific Coast department of the Prendergast Company. Mr. Fifer is now manager of the Portland office of the Prendergast Company:

The New lVaterproof Sheathing and Car Lining Paper

Moistite is a paper rheathing made waterproof by an inner layer of procesred bitumen that saturateg the fibres, binds them, together_ and thus becornes sealed within and really a part of the paper itself. The above photognph (magnified about 36 times) shows how the bitumen saturates the fibres and makes them waterprroof. Moistite is light gray in color, pliable and strong. It bends easily at sharp angles without breaking.

Dealers handling Moistite need no other sheathing paper. There is a big money making opportunity offered lumber and building supply dealers who combine their sheathing inveshnent to one. brand. This one line kept turning, produces bigger profits, eliminates double inveshnent and heavy inventories.

Moistite does not cost the customers any more tfian other reliable sheatrhing papers but it gr"o them many added advantages.

Let us explain our many merchandising and advertising helps. They ofier suggestions to further the sale of Moistite Car Lining and Sheathing Paper.