Show F CAUSE WASTE OF WOOD TO 10 DECREASE The waste wood heal continues to diminIsh and away awa awaA awayA A manufacturer of brushes recently made a discovery In Maine which supplied him with ith ma material tonal exactly suIted to hIs purpose He went to the PIne Tree state to lo buy wood for the backs or of hall hair brushes and the handles of shaving brushes and chanced to visit the yards of a spool maker who WitS was using white birch The spool man took the white part of the wood only and was throw throwIng tug Ing aWa away the red hearts Thousands of cords had been burned or into ino the lake to he be rid of It chic fhe red hearts were exactly what tile the brush maker wanted and ancl at little moro than the expense of freight he supplied his factory factor This Is typIcal of the he trend or of man manufacturing Waste of wood Is still great hut but it Is decreasing Whal liat one factor factory can not use another turns to profit mills threw aWIl avay half the left In the ho woods sawdust dumped In streams to lo pollute them and destroy destro fish slabs burned In perpetual bonfires and defective logs hogs hogsand and lumber as not worth movIng ThIs policy does doos ot pro pre vail vall now Some mills have hao put In ma machinery machinery chinery to lo work up their own by others sell their vaste to lo manufacturers who can use It as in inthe inthe the case cited cRocI In Maine The prop and muses of woods are arc now sub subjects of careful Investigation and lie problem of turnIng to lo account the odds and ends and the lie byproducts Is brought more and more to tho ho front I no now than The United States forest service ha has taken up this hits study in a sie systematic way of tile or if particular states i are being boing conducted usually In coop oration with the tho states concerned The I plan when fully carried out will in I IUn elude over eer wood In the Un iter St fewer than species The Tho of each will willbe willbe be hardness tough toughness ness elasticity durability weight fuel value size of tree regions where grown the common hy br which It ItIs ItIs Is known In dIfferent localities and other matters malleIs of this kind A history of the woods uses In the tho past will be given and an account of present uses with for foi n a wider range of usefulness In the future by br pointing out ont in what capacities It will best serve nh nd be most valuable |