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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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of the work. However, theresults obtained so far have clearly demonstrated that over any rea-sonable period of years, economies resulting from organized researchso greatly exceed the expense involved tliat there can be no questionsas to its value. As a side commentary on the financial aspects of forest productsresearch, the practical value of the work done at ^Madison has receivedv/ide foreign recognition. Based on a study of this la))()ratory a similarinstitution has been installed by the Canadian government: also inSouth Africa, India, and Australia, the various local governmentshave called men of the laboratory staff to direct research in forestproducts particularly in the seasoning and kiln drying of timlierspecies commercially used there. In ))ractically every country on thefflobe are laboratorv contacts, largelv witli wood-using industries,established through requests for information availa1)le at the labora-torv and the recognition of the practical value of this information.
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A Dkckxniai. Ki.coKi) :i CHAPTKK \IFl TIRK KKSKARCTI IX FOREST PRODIcrS The laboratory, passing, as it did. tlirouo-h the war witli a largemeasure of serviee to its eredit, is now in the post-war adjustmentperiod, sailing out on a new taek. The immediate realignment offorces, following the armistice, the reduction in personnel, the clean-ing up of war projects, and the a))plication of facts learned during tin-war to peace time industries and processes, have been told earhcr inthis book. The two years that have ela))sed since the armistice haveseen the adjustment largely completed. What of the futin-e. of the problems still unsolved, the fields ofresearch visioned from this point, the beginning of the second decadeof the Forest Products Laboratorys existence? Such a vision exists,and its keynote is the reduction of the annual drain upon the remain-ing forests of America by more economical utilization. A vision ofservice to the wood-using industries of the country and a desir

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