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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 growing scarcity and increasing pricesof wood, left in doubt no longer the accuracy of their vision or thejustice of their endeavors. Today the ))roblcm of forest conservationstands out as one of the most vital economic issues of the nation.KnoMledge accumulated during the past thirty years has served tocrystalize the problem, for it is now generally conceded that its solu-tion lies along two main lines of endeavor: the first is by stoj^ping fur-ther devastation through such measures as will afford adecpiate pro-tection and regulation of our remaining forests and will put our forest-bearing lands on a permanent forest producing basis; the second isthe curtailment of the annual drain upon the remaining forests ))y morecomi^lete and scientific use of the trees cut, a use arrived at by anaccurate knowledge of tlie properties of the various woods and theireconomic use.
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A DlAKXXIAl, KlAOUl) CHAPTKR IIITHE FOREST PKODUCTS LABORATORY Establishment The national need for research in forest prodncts was recojrnizcdfrom the earhest days of the Division of Forestry and became increas-ingly apparent as forest exhaustion in the east advanced. Eventu-ally it asserted itself. The scanty appropriations of the first decadeof American governmental forestry provided little money for researchin forest products, and between 1890 and 1910 work was mainly of acooperative nature and was done largely at various universities wherelaboratory facilities were obtainable or buildings were available forhousing testing equipment. Studies of the mechanical properties of the more important woodswere begun at the universities of Washington, Yale, Purdue, Califor-nia, and Oregon. Some preservation and kiln drying studies wereundertaken at Yale, research in naval stores initiated in the South,and a small experimental pulp mill erected in Boston. Wood chem-istry and the chemistry of

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