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Show HEAVY LOSS WILL RESULT If Wood Products Experiment Ex-periment Section of Service Is Curtailed Washington. Jan 29. Industrial loss will result if congress finally cur-ftaile cur-ftaile the work of the wood products experiment section of the forest service. ser-vice. In the opinion of Chief Forester Forest-er Graves In the agricultural appropriation ap-propriation bill the amount provided provid-ed for this work Is cut from $17i,ft00 I .to $100,000 In explaining the features of this branch of the forest servicv Mr Graves today in a statement declared that multitudinous users of lumber bad been shown how thoy could secure se-cure a maximum of Bervice and durability dur-ability from a minimum of material. ,' In experiments to determine the best methods of utilizing and conserving .timber, in discovering the best roet.h- ods of using the by-product and in studying hundreds of allied questions, Mr Graves contended that this divi-, divi-, sion of the forest sen ice had been paying for Itself many times over An effort is to be made to have the full appropriation restored. |