The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-07-07

the state university, in which government OK.
perts will attack the problems of these forest
products.
The new building has Just been formally
dedicated and the fine equipment Of machin.
cry and testing apparatus which is tu max"
It the most complete laboratory Of It's Kind in
the country IS rapidly being installed. The
staff Of some twenty government investigators
has already arrived and been established in
the suite OF offices IN the new building and for
some months have been delivering lectures
before tho students ~ forestry
in the new laboratory the United states
forest service and the University OF Wisconsin
viii cooperate In the Investigations which
will Dee made to solve problems confronting the
paper manufacturers, lumbermcn. builders and
others who deal with the products of tho
American forests. The building Itself. which
cost some $4,000 and the site upon which It
stands, south Of University avenue, between
Camp Randall and the Chicago Milwaukee and
81. Paul railroad tracks, were furnished by tho
university The equipment furnished by
the government nj a cost Of about $4,000 and
the star Of Investigators IS also maintained
by government appropriations. These men,
I'm addition 10 their laboratory work. will de-
liver lectures in the regular forestry course OF
the university. The laboratories. too. although
ments, are open to the faculty and students
for advanced research along the lines of study
undertaken by the experts.
The laboratory, which faces north on Uni.
versity avenue, is a fine freproof building Of
dark brown brick. trimmed with white Bed.
ford stone and rooted with red tiles, with a
lSOfout frontage and n depth OF so feet I'm
mediately east OF the building private spur
from the railroad carries the lumber into the
laboratory yards. derrick is to be erected
north of the track for unloading the big logs
and sumps for the experiments from the fiat
cars. Immediately opposite, south Of the track
is to be installed small sawml with n saw
which will cut timbers up TO 20 feet in length.
Already logs of log leaf, short.leaf and lob
Jolly yellow pine have been sent in TO the
laboratories by umbermen and paper manu-
facturers at Kenwood, La, Hattiesburg, Miss
Thornton, Ark, and spruce logs from the
Maine woods. number of fat pine stumps
for the turpentine, rosin and alcohol tests have
also been received
Sheds for air drying the lumber line the
west side OF the yard, which is to be graded
and covered with cinders Immediately back
of the building is n deep, cement.lined pit to
hold the Creosote TO be used in experiments
until 1t is pumped out into the laboratory
tanks.
The problem of making a satisfactory print
paper from materials other than spruce and
hemlock is one which will receive particular
attention, and for this purpose a complete
paper making plant has been made n part OF
the laboratory equipment. Every process.
from the breaking Of the wood into chips for
the first treatment by soda and sulphite sou.
lions to the final running of the sheets OF
paper through the calendering rolls to pro-
duce finished surface, will be followed care.
fully. so that the results of substitution Of