New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-10-27
Government Transfers Work ot
Forest Products Investigation.

been completed for the transfer of all
the governments forest products work
to Madison, Wis, where the q. S.
Forest Service Products Laboratory
will be located, and to Chicago where
the headquarters of the Office of Wood
Utilization will be established.
The new ForestProducts Laboratory
being erected at Madison by the Uni
versity OF Wisconsin, which will CO.
operate with the Government in its
forest products work and which is to
cost approximately $4,000, is now in
the course of construction. The la
boratory will be fre-proof building
OF brick trimmed in white stone and is
located near the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railroad with exclusive
tracks and other railroad facilities.
The building is expected to be ready
for occupancy upon Janury l. In the
meanwhile temporary Offices will be
located at 1910 Adams street, Madi-
SON.
On October !. the Yale Timber Test
ing Laboratory was discontinued and
the Forest Service Equipment there
shipped to Madison. The Laboratory
here at Washington was discontinued
at the same time. The Timber Testing
Laboratory at Purdue, Indiana, will
be operated until the middle of Deem
Der when it will be discontinued and
its equipment shipped to Madison.
The offices having general supervi-
sion over all the work of the branch
OF products will remain temporarily
at Washington.
W. L. Hall, Assistant Forester,
continues in charge of Branch of Pro-
ducts and McGarvey Cline will be
Director of the madison Laboratory.
The work of the Laboratory will be
assigned to five Offices as follows:
Wood Preservation, which will
study all problems related to the i'm
pregnation of wood with preservatives
and other substances.
Wood Chemistry, which will handle
all work bearing on the chemical uti-
lization OF forest products. Wood
Distillation, paper pulp and other
fiber products, chemical analyses of
creosotes, turpentines, etc., are the
principal lines handled by this Office.
Timber Tests, which will have
charge of all tests to determine the
strength and other mechanical proper
ties of different woods.
Technology, which will study the
microscopic structure of wood,
methods of seasoning and drying it,
and other problems of a purely techni-.
cal character.
Maintenance, which will have charge
of the filling and computing. It will
also be responsible for the purchase
of supplies and general care of the
entire Labor atory.
The class Of work IN the Laboratory
may be separated into three kinds as
follows:
l. The investigation of problems in
experimental research.
2. Experimental work in co-opera-
ton with commercial plants to verify
Laboratory experiments on a com
mercial sale.
3. Cooperation with outside parties
Tor the purpose of assisting them in
applying principles and processes of
recognized commercial value with
which the Service is thoroughly ia
miliar.
The work of the Office of wood utili-
cation at Chicago will. consist of
studies of the wood using industries
OF various states, the study OF woods
in manufacture and of the methods of
disposing of mill waste, the collection
Of statistics on the price of lumber at
the mill and At the principal distribute
ing markets of the country, and the
study OF specifications and grading
rules. The Office will also secure sta
tistics of forest products nf in,no,.t I mo