New Profits

fro* the additional sales

Thc PEERLESS line of built-in furniture gives you an opportunity to make an additional good-sized sale along with the lumber for every house. and the Peerless line carries ^ rcal prcfit for the lumber merchant.

Home Modernizing

tAmerican Lumber: Basic provisions for American Lumber Standards.grades are published by the U. S. Department of Commerce in Simplified Practice Recommendation No. 16. ,,Lumber." Revised _July- l, 1926: specifications for grades conforming to American Lumber Standards are published in the l92Z Siindards of the American Society for Testing Materials, and in American Railay Eng!1e^e^ring Association Bulletin, yol. 27, No. 284, dated February, 1926.

"Factors to be applicd -to A-verage .Modulus of Elaeticity Values: 'I'he values for modulus of elasticity are average for species and not. safe working_ s-tresses. They may be used as given for com- puting average deflection of beams. - When it is desired to pre- vent sag: in beams, values one-half those given should be used. In computing sale loads for long coluruns ialues one-third those given should be used.

Table 2.-The nail-holding power of sonre woods conrmonly used for framing houses; 7-d &ment-coated nails driven io " di'ptf,-"f lft inches and pulled at once. The results of tests tor ttre Foresi Products Laboratory

Species of wood r\roisture ":;:"fr:,liT:x"n??x.T "t into side grai

(Wash.-Ore. type) lAy9la.se of three species-Silver fir (Abies amabilis) white fir (Abres concolor), and lowland white fir (Abies grandis.)

'Sold also as Pondosa and California white pine.

Table 3.-Comparison of the shrinkage of white fir and of other wgods c.gmmonly used in building, baied on the total st.irL"E"-i" vorunle that occurs between a grgen and an oven-dry condition. The resutts of tests by the Forest products Laboratorv-

(Continued on page 49) is becoming more popular every day, and usually modernizing begins with the kitchen. Stlle and beaul as well as correct design through years of study of kitchen problems make Peedess Built-In Furniture anecessary line forthe dealer who intends to cash-in on this growing business.

?ctless dealers arcfarzhhed utitb manl practical sclling helps, AsAforfall debils and an estimate of tbe profit utbicb ya canrnakcin tbe ' iletct lcar on tbis cas! selling line-t