. American forestry. Forests and forestry. H. S. BRISTOL Assistant Director of Forest ProJucts Laboratory, United States Forest Service, Madison, Wisconsin selected as liaving ma;lc an entirely satisfactory proposition and as pre- senting on the whole the most favor- able conditions for work such as the Forest Service intended to do. By the terms of the agreement which was entered into, the Universitv has erected a building at a cost of about $50,000, and will supply free of charge the heat, light, water, and power re- quired in the work. The Forest Serv- ice has supplied the testing machines
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. H. S. BRISTOL Assistant Director of Forest ProJucts Laboratory, United States Forest Service, Madison, Wisconsin selected as liaving ma;lc an entirely satisfactory proposition and as pre- senting on the whole the most favor- able conditions for work such as the Forest Service intended to do. By the terms of the agreement which was entered into, the Universitv has erected a building at a cost of about $50,000, and will supply free of charge the heat, light, water, and power re- quired in the work. The Forest Serv- ice has supplied the testing machines and other apparatus and will furnish the force of forty experts and assistants to carry on the work. By this plan of cooperation the United States secures the largest and most completely equip- ped wood-testing laboratory in the world. ORGANIZATION BY SECTIONS As to organization and working space, the laboratory is divided into three groups of three sections each. The first 326 groiq^ employs processes that are largely chemical an 1 may be designated the chemical group. In it are the sections of chemistry, pulp, and distillation. The section of chemistry devotes itself to the study of the chemical constituents of wood and the composition of wood preservatives. The section of pulp in- vestigations studies the fiber charac- teristics of woods to determine their value for various classes of pulp. The immediate work of his section, for which Congress has made a special appropri- ation, is to determine whether it is pos- sible to find a substitute for spruce in the manufacture of ground wood pulp. The section of distillation has the in- teresting and important field of develop- ing chemical by-products of wood by distillation processes. Undoubtedly, this section is to have great direct im- portance in reducing wood waste be- cause many of our commercial woods are rich in such materials as alcohol, turpentine, oils, and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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