. The Forest products laboratory : a decennial record, 1910-1920. ilities,organization, and fund of information at the disposal of the indus-tries under the best terms possible and practicable. The alterna-tive would be to attempt no research except that provided for inits approved program. (2) A certain amount of cooperative work, it is believed, is ahealthy thing for an organization of this character. It not onlyincreases contact between the laboratory and the wood users, thusstimulating appreciation of one anothers problems, but it addsto the general fund of scientific information on wood.
. The Forest products laboratory : a decennial record, 1910-1920. ilities,organization, and fund of information at the disposal of the indus-tries under the best terms possible and practicable. The alterna-tive would be to attempt no research except that provided for inits approved program. (2) A certain amount of cooperative work, it is believed, is ahealthy thing for an organization of this character. It not onlyincreases contact between the laboratory and the wood users, thusstimulating appreciation of one anothers problems, but it addsto the general fund of scientific information on wood. While allinformation in possession of the laboratory is disseminated freeof charge, much of this information is incomplete when appliedto specialized commercial problems. Cooperative service makesavailable to the industries an opportunity, which otherwise wouldnot be available, to supplement by special research at minimumcost any incomplete data in possession either of the laboratory orof the industry. And it tends to utilize the full capacity of COOPERATIVE BOX WORK—A STUDY OP DIAGONAL COMPRESSION 80 The Forest Products Laboratory 111 offering cooperative service, liowever, it has been necessary toplace certain limitations upon the work which will be accepted. Thelaboratory does not desire to engage in mere routine testing, and it isiK^t its purpose to do so. To meet all requests of this character wouldrequire many times its present appropriation. Kspecially does itavoid a type of routine work that could })e readily done by an industrytlirough the installation of simple testing machinery, at reasonablecost, by the industry itself. Advice on such installations will invari-ably be given if desired. It is not its purpose to promote one productas against another, but to present facts which will enable the public andthe industries to put wood to its best use. It has therefore adopted asone of its underlying principles of this cooperative work that it will notaccep
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