Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-11-12

CREST products laboratory is a fed
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eral institution under the forest
4 10 l service of the United States Depart
IN ment of Agriculture and is located
I at Madison Wis. The results of the
4 ~4 \ experiments made at this institution
#yYWyzSS are open to the public and infor-
KNNk/X nation any of the subjects treat
NcN}SCt1N ed briefly in this article may be OBJ
ENStpo~M tanned in detail from the laboratory
$1,000 Free This is the only large insttu-
ton of its kind in the world al
though number of other countries are now plan->
ming to adopt the idea. Rudyard Kplns once
wrote: ~
T>,elve hundred million spread
About this EARTH and and you
Wonder, when you and are dead
What will those luckess millions dor a.it
10 read s 5.fi. 10
And I and yeu, s i
Wonder when all the trees are gone .ei
What will those luckess millions dot 81
The kindly sarcasm of the Kipling humor dsap-l
pears and we are confronted with question Of
vast Importance for our consideration and action.
The Importance of the broad problems would
possibly be more sharply recognized IL we view
the situation from a somewhat less altrustlc and
international standpoint and consider only the
one hundred million people within the borders of
tent to which forest products enter into the COM
forts, convenlences and pleasures of many, IL not
/. all Of this vast multitude Of people, igaH ny
fEU2 rise In the morning from your wooden bed
: and walk about on the wooden floor of your wood
81 en- home; you battle with soap probably contain
sng produced in part with product from
wood anoint your face with a lotion containing
alcohol very likely produced from wood waste, put
on your hose manufactured from wood fiber. step
Nnto your leather shoes requiring tannin from
wood for their manufacture, and then proceed to
breakfast where you sit upon a wooden chair In
front of wooden table and read the daily news
received telegraph lines supported by wood
en- poles from paper made of wood pulp and
urimped with ink manufactured from forest
groduct If reasonably prosperous, you now jour-
ney to your Office In an automobile with wooden
spskes in the wheels probably travel at least part
of the way wooden pavement and finally
settle yourself in your Office surrounded by wooden
trimmings and furniture and dig into the daily
letters and reports which are again dependent
upon the supply of wood pulp paper II, by
chance you have occasion to travel you board
a wooden railroad Cor at least one made 10
appear like wood) and travel over tracks sup
ported by wooden cross-ties. The food which you
eat the clothes which you wear the materials
and supplies necessary for the comforts of your
home and the conduct of your business, all are
received in containers, some Of wood ana some
OF fiber but practically all of forest products.
existence are dependent upon very VIDE va
riety of industries, dependent to greater or less
degree upon forest products These supply use
ful and necessary occupation to some million or
miro people. They include 20 per cent of the
27sOOO manufacturing plants in the country
The future of these varied and tremendous in
<usfries is dependent upon supply of raw ma
terial. their ultimate and greatest success de-
rendent upon the wise selection and most efii-
s-ient handling of this raw material. This means
that authentic knowledge of the properties OF the
material and how to most efficiently utilize them
is in the long run, essential to their continuation
on sound economic basis
These considerations inevitably lead us to the
forests and here again we are confronted with q
demand and necessity for knowledge OF the prop
critics and possible uses and utilization OF the
many available species Of trees. without 1t, II Is
impossible to know which trees to cut or which
TO grow what is their value how best to utilize
them, or what 10 90 Win tue noiinouS uuail'''s
of waste material.
II was such broad conceptions as these that
Led TO the development of the forest products
laboratory which was established In 1910 by the
a forest service, United States Department Of Agri
culture in cooperation with the university OF
wisconsin Federal appropriations maintain the
organization and provide necessary supplies ant
equipment. The university provides the buildings
and light heat and powef. 0e&N'EE D 8Ns
The forest products laboratory Is Called AN I'm
sttution of industrial research. It's object is Il
acquire, disseminate and apply useful knowledg
of the properties. aud methods of utilization
OF aiI forest products. THIS rs d Broad field O
almost unlimited scope; the surface has been bu
partially scratched
~ e has been said that researehzIs prfpaarilxr,
matter Of men who work upon the frontiers Q
knowledge. conquering the new domains" Re
search may be done-as matter Of fact Ii done
individually. separately. dsconncctedy and pros
-. ~ Gonna xort VIII undoubtedly ronuIt Buf