Vol. VI FEBRUARY, 1917 No. 1 EDITORIAL CHAT Experience NCE upon a time there was a successful man who did not smugly explain that anybody could be equally successful by grabbing all the work in sight, his own and everybody's else, etc., etc.-the inference being that his success is a slight token of the boss' appreciation of his industry. A man can learn all the motions of swimming on a piano stool, but he can't make much headway with them until he gets into the water. Industry doubtless is the foundation of success, but it is because work develops character, ability and judgment. Experience covers the term and it is the experience back of a man which determines, to a large extent, his earning capacity; in other words, his success. So with business; the successful concern is the one backed by a wealth of experience which equips it to meet every contingency which may arise in its field of effort; the concern whose knowledge of all the details of its operation is the result of long and thorough familiarity. The product of such a concern, whether it be merchandise or service, has a ready market because experience is a pretty reliable measure of ability. There are exceptions in business as with the individual, but in the long run it is the cold, hard market value of experience, whether manifested in product or ability, that determines success. Annual Consumption of Wood by the Wood Manufacturing Industries Where and how the supplies of stock are used S TATISTICS have been compiled by the Forest Service which show for the first time precisely how the lumber produced in the country is utilized. About 45 billion feet of lumber of all kinds is the annual production in the United States; of this nearly 25 billion feet, board measure, is further manufactured, the other portion remaining for rough construction lumber and for similar purposes. This is exclusive of that material which reaches its final use in the form of fuel, railroad ties, posts, poles, pulpwood, cooperage, wood distillates, and the barks and extracts demanded by the tanning industry. The work of collecting and compiling the figures extended over a considerable period and was carried out State by State; but as one full year was made the basis of statistics in each State the total is a fair average of the use of lumber in further manufacture in the whole country. Between 50 and 60 per cent. of the lumber produced is subject to further manufacture. In pre paring the figures in this way, however, it should be remembered that considerable material reaches shops and factories in the form of logs, bolts and billets without having passed through sawmills, and while this material is included in these statistics, this fact should be remembered in comparing the statistics with those of lumber production. Nearly or quite 100 different woods are used in this country under their own names, while an unknown number find their way to shops and factories without being identified or separately listed, except under general names. quantity the softwoods, the needle-leaf or coniferous trees, are most important, but there is a greater number of species among the hardwoods or broad-leaf trees. In More than one-half of the total represented in the tables consists of planing-mill products, the largest items of which are flooring, siding and finishing. The next industry, in point of quantity (Continued on page 14) The lucky part of this was that a This horse-shoe, embedded in a large block of red oak, was encountered by a 9-inch Disston band saw in the C. & W. Kramer Co. plant in Richmond, Indiana. The saw was uninjured, beyond the necessity of re-swaging and sharpening, and it did not miss a run. This was the more remarkable in that really two cuts of the metal were made. After cutting off the upper projection, the teeth, necessarily dulled, went through the second piece of the horse-shoe, as before stated, uninjured. That's the kind of quality that is cheap at any price. T Arkansas Cottonwood Log While it doesn't exactly rival the California product, the cottonwood log shown in the two photographs is a sizable piece of timber. It measures 10 feet in length, 7 feet across the butt and 6 feet across the small end. It contains 3300 feet of lumber and was cut by the Baker Lumber Company at Turrell, Arkansas, which has long been an enthusiastic user of Disston Saws. |