. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 45 Standardization as it Looks to a Real Tree By William A. Babbitt Chairman of the Committee of Standardization, the Association or Wood Using Industries. If a Tree Might Speak! "Here's that Standardization Chap," the Oak would say. "Not B bad one; well meaning in fact. But he has blundered on a propo- sition far too big for him and his whole Committee. In fact he only sees one small part, I wish I could make him understa
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN 45 Standardization as it Looks to a Real Tree By William A. Babbitt Chairman of the Committee of Standardization, the Association or Wood Using Industries. If a Tree Might Speak! "Here's that Standardization Chap," the Oak would say. "Not B bad one; well meaning in fact. But he has blundered on a propo- sition far too big for him and his whole Committee. In fact he only sees one small part, I wish I could make him understand just how a tree looks at this standardization ; The Oak continued, "No real tree objects to be cut down if he is used right, but when the Creator has spent five hundred years growing a tree, that TREE ought to be used right! Every tree has a real job while he is maturing. He is enlisted in the greatest conservation project of all time—the conservation of fertile land. And when he is matured, he is then ready for his final service to man's welfare. "But men have not used us as they ought. If they had, there would be three other trees here with me, and all of us would have been better for man's use. Look at me ! I have lived 508 years, and have a life ring to show for each year. When you look at those 508 tail-heavy years, and realize that you waste all the effort of 408 years of growth and the whole 508 years of conservation of the soil and water-courses, and only save for human use from fifteen to twenty per cent, of my body and bones, I want to say it is shameful waste. Here's the whole matter in an acorn-cup " A great deal of water has run past the mill, and many sheaves of calculations and estimates have gone into waste baskets since we started on this attempt. Indeed, it would have failed but for the opportune and friendly aid of the Forest Products Laboratory. But we have finally been able to construct a sort of picture of acorn-size, which m
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