. American forestry. Forests and forestry. THE FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY The wood working shop On the ground floor are the paper and pulp mills, laboratories for timber physics and timber testing, wood pres- ervation, and wood distillation, and the woodworking shop. The last is fully equipped with saws, planers, and all re- quired woodworking machinery. In the rear of the building is a spur track by which timber and other supplies can be brought to the door on the car. There is also a roomy storage shed, and there are two large tanks for stor- ing preservatives. On the second floor are the of
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. THE FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY The wood working shop On the ground floor are the paper and pulp mills, laboratories for timber physics and timber testing, wood pres- ervation, and wood distillation, and the woodworking shop. The last is fully equipped with saws, planers, and all re- quired woodworking machinery. In the rear of the building is a spur track by which timber and other supplies can be brought to the door on the car. There is also a roomy storage shed, and there are two large tanks for stor- ing preservatives. On the second floor are the offices of the assistant forester in charge of the branch of products, William L. Hall; the director of the laboratory, McGarvey Cline, and the assistant directors, H. S. Bristol, and H. S. Weiss. There is a large lecture room and there are offices for the computing clerks, files and other requirements of a highly organized modern business. Also on this floor are the chemical laboratories, drafting room and' ]:)hotographic dark room. The building is airy, well lighted, and at- 394 tractive—yet already the young enthu- siasts of the service, who dream of to-morrows while they work at the tasks of to-day, are talking of possible enlargement in the near future. This is a healthy sign. The work grows constantly, not only in scope, but in real value as well. THE OF PRODl'CTS 'Idle branch of products undertakes to conduct investigations and tlissemi- nate information regarding the mechan- ical, physical, and chemical character- istics and properties of wood, utiliza- tion of forest products, air seasoning and artificial drying of wood, agencies destructive to wood, wood preserva- tion, wood distillation, production of naval stores, pulp and paper and other chemical industries using forest prod- ucts, chemical analyses of forest prod- ucts and materials used in their treat- ment ; statistics of ])n)(luction, consump- tion and prices of forest products, proc-. Please note that
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