St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

dows, give room for the apparatus and expert
ments.
AS some of the tests will produce strong
fumes, there are tables encased in glass with
hoods and venti1ators above to carry off the
smells and small doors through which the
experimenters will work.
A corner room is set apart for special work
in distilling turpentine and other products
and special unighted space Is provided as
chemicals storage room. Still other unlighted
spaces are reserved as Photographic dark
rooms and record vaults for the safe keeping
of the valuable reports OF the work done.
One of the most interesting Offices is that
of the pathologist who has charge of the ex-
periments with the fungi and other enemies OF
the woods. Upon his desk are large colfec-
tons Of glass tubes containing cultures of ev-
cry sort of vegetable growth which feeds upon
wood fbers, and samples Of all the minute
animalculae which attack timbers. Many he
secured last summer In his visits to mines in
different parts of the country, since one Of
the greatest sources of the dangerous mine
cave-in Is the destruction of supports by these
little enemies.
A large drafting room, lighted from the
north and east, library and filing room, a
lecture hall and suite of II Offices for the
staff officials and their clerks and stenogra-
piers complete the building arrangements be-
low and in the attic space for storing mate
rails which cannot be left in the open yard
and which is reached by an elevator from the
basement.
The government will appoint to regular
work in the laboratory as an addition to the
present staff several Of the students who have
been doing forestry work the past winter at
the University of Wisconsin.
The forestry lecture course of the univer-
sity, just closed. included this year. besides
the regular work under State Forester E. NJ
Griffith lectures by w. L. Hall, assistant for
ester at the Washington Office; r. S. Kellogg.
who holds a similar position; Franklin H.
Smith, in charge of the wood utilization
Office of the government at Chicago; H. F.
Weiss and H. S. Bristol. assistant directors of
the new laboratory; L. F. Hawley, in charge
Of the wood distillation of the laboratory, and
Frederick Dunlap, in charge of the kiln drying
Investigations
At the time of the formal dedication of the
laboratory the various departments of the gov.
eminent work were in full operation, that the
visitors may see the actual work in progress
just how paper is made; how timbers are
tested; how stumps are distilled, and how the
little marine animals are prevented from hor.
ing through shipping.
The staff of the new laboratory is as fol-
lows: McGarvey Cline, Purdue 'O4 director.
H. s. Bristol, Yale, and H. F. Weiss, Yale, as.
sistant directors; H. D. Tiemann, Stevens In.
stitute of Technology, in charge of technol.
ogy; Ralph Thelen. University Of California
mechanical! engineer; W. H. Kempfer, Untver.
sity of Michigan in charge of maintenance.
Edwin Sutermeister, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, i'll charge of wood pulp lab
oratory; E. Bateman, Yale, in charge of chem
lstry; L. F. Hawley, Cornell, in charge Of
wood distillation Frederick Dunlap, Cornell,
IN charge of kiln drying operations: F. w
Bond, Massachusetts Institute Of Techno,oov
in charge OF wood preservation; c. T. Barnum
Cornell, and c. P. Winslow, Yale, engineers
In wood preservation laboratory; ]. A. New.
lin, Purdue in charge of timber tests: H r
surface, Ohio State university. engineer in
wood chemistry; H. E. Mckenzie University
OF Maine, engineer in timber tests: G. 7 Nv
phrey. University of Nebraska and Corna1,
pathoiogist and A. W. schorger, Ohio state
university. chemist '0