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Title: The Forest products laboratory : a decennial record, 1910-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weiss, Howard F Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)
Subjects: Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) Wood
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Democrat printing company
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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)y limiting activities exclusively to the work authorized byannual appropriations from Congress. It in no way commercializesthe work of tlie laboratory, because all information available on anyphase of wood utilization is furnished free upon request or throughpersonal consultation. But special problems, involving additionaldata and investigations outside its regular program of research, can behandled only under the conditions stated. Individuals or companies, by referring their wood problems tothe laboratory, may obtain in advance a statement of the tests or in-vestigations thought necessary to their solution and an estimate of thecost. Communications should be addressed to the Director, ForestProducts Laboratorv, Madison, Wisconsin. PART II
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.V DixKXXiAi, Kkcokd 85 THE DECEXXIAI. The culmination of the first ten years of the hfe ofthe laboratory came with the Decennial Celebration onJuly 22 and 23, 1920, at Madison, Wisconsin. That theten years M-as fruitful of no small measure of service andestablishment of good will among those whom the lab-oratory was intended to serve is shown b)^ the registra-tion during the two days festivities, which were attendedby 269 visitors from 22 states and Canada and PortoRico. Largely drawn from the nations wood-usingand forest and lumbering interests, these representativebusiness men and friends were given opportunity tostudy the development of the lalioratory as it standstoday in physical e(;uipment and facilities for futureservice. On the part of the laboratory, it was the layingof a new foundation stone for the erection of a greaterlaboratory, the gaining of inspiration to press on to themaking of a new ten-year record. Service to tlie wood-using industries of the country indirectly, a

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