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GRAND RAPIDS INSTALLATIONS
Grand Rapids Vapor Kiln Reports Remarkable
Year, Indicating Prosperity of. the Wood
working Industries
The Grand Rapids Vapor Kiln, Grand Rapids,
ivlieh, reports a large bu s iness from all sections
of th e cou ntry ,-
for the year and for the current season. This
vo lume of business indicates an extremely
hea lthy bus iness condition throughout the coun
try. Thc \i'oodworkers are not niaking capital
im·estlTlents without being rea sona bly certain
of their sales keepi ng up to a g'ood level.
The followin g brief comments on a number
of the installations will indicate that this con
dition is current not only in the furniture in
dllstry and kindred lines, but in the general
lumber and lumber using industry.
Eugene J. Straus Cabinet Co., Louisville, Ky.,
i~ making an in'lallation of thr ee kilns in con
nection with the new show case and fixture
plant now under construction. This plant will
be one of the most modern show case plants
in the country.
The C. B. Talbot Trustee Co., of Detroit,
with a large wholesale and retail yard on Six
]vfile Road, Detroit, have just completed a bat
tcry of four Grand !{apids vapor kilns and are
now building additional kilns that will ju st
double their capacity.
The Int e rnational Lamp & Fixture Corp. and
Valentine-Seaver Co., both. of Chicago, have
found i't necessary to make material additions
to their manufacturing facilities and are putting
in threc and two kilns, respectively, of the
G rand Rapids type.
In th e music field the Rudolph vVuriitzer Co.,
"iorth Tonawanda, N. Y., and the Sterling Piano
Corp., Derby, Conn., have both found the de
:Iland for their products to the extent that it
is necessary to add additional kilns. Wurlitzer
i, putting in one more kiln, making a total of six
Grand Rapids vapor kiln s in use. The Sterling
Piano Corp. are building two kilns .
The To\v<;on Body Co., of Detroit, are adding
,IX kiln, to its present batte ry of six and the
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Are you still wasting your time and
going to the expense of scraping off old
varnish and shellac to eliminate the
checks and cracks in order to secure a
smooth surface for refinishing?
Use Behlen's Varnish Crack Eradi
cator.
It saves time, trouble and, incidentally,
expense, at the same time giving you as
fine a body surface for the new finish
as you could possibly wish for.
A sample can for trial awaits your
request.
At the eighteenth annual m ee ting of the
National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' :\sso
ciation, held recently at the Congre ss Hotel,
Chicago, Ill., a committee was appointed to con
sider venee r grades, the question of plywood
grades being left to the Plywood Asso ciation.
It was agreed that the convictions of the panel
bOOy should govern in the matter of the panel
rules and that the veneer rules should be worked
out by the new committee of the Veneer Asso
ciation, whose names - are to be made public
shortly.
Another feature of the meeting was the ad
dress of Harry E. Kline, president of th e body,
who recited the histo·rical facts, which have led
up to the present status of the veneer and ply
wood rules. He was firm in his admonitions to
the Association members to abide by the new
grading rules, which, although by no means
infallible, at least serve as a favorable basis on
which to build further.
VVASHTNCTON. n. c., necemb('r 22.· Land usc
and timber supply are thc two major problems
confronting the country in its use of forest
land" according to the annual report of Colonel
William B. Greely, chief of the forest service ,
United States Department of Agriculture. The
report states that the annual drain on the coun
try's fore sts amounts to 25,000,000,000 cubic
feet, while g rowth replaces only 6,000,000,000
cubic feet.
More timber was cut from the national for est s
during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923, th a n
ever before in a similar period of tillie and th e
receipt s paid into the United States Treasury
were greater than for any pre v iOllS year, acc ord
ing to the repo rt. The amount of timber cut
totaled 991,982,000 board feet, the amount sold
was over 200,000,000,000 feet and the receipts
from sales totaled $2,641,244. Sal es of timber in
the national forests are made only with care to
cut no more timber than the growth in order
to insure a pcrpetual supply.
The increase in timber ~ales from the Alaskan
forests during the fiscal year was 73 per CCllt
over the previous year. One of the factors
affecting the volume of timber business ill the
national forests is the continued westerly mig'ra
tion of forest industrie<; from thc depleted tim
ber reg-ions of the East, and this is reRected
in sales of timber from the \iVe,tern forests.
FURTHER STANDARDIZATION WORK
Paint and Varnish Manufacturers to Hold Con
ference With Department of Commerce
WASHINGTON, D. c., December 23.-Tentative
date s were understood to-day to have been set
by the Commerce Department for further con
CITED BY TRADE COMMISSION
ferences for the standardization of specifications
for esse ntial commodities. Repre se ntatives ' of
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 23.- The De Gol
yer Varnish Works, of Troy, N. Y., a manufac- ' the paint and varnish industry would meet with
the department on :vIarch 13, and the reprc<;cnt
turer of shellac, varnishes and allied products,
at ives of the forged-tool industry would meet
was cited by the Federal Tracie Commission for
on January 10, if possible, or very shortl y there
"using unfair methods of competition in the
adv e rtising and selling of a product composed after.
The question s to be co nsidered at the co nfer
of shellac gum and a large quantity ofsubsti
tute therefor under the brands and labels of ence on standard specifi cat ion s for forged tools
are largely confined to s izes and weights, while
'White Shellac' and 'Orange Shellac.''' On such
at
the paint and varnish conference problems
labels and brands, it was al\eged, the firm "did
of standardization of colors and containers will
not indicate in any way whatever that th e prod
be discussed primarily.
ucts so sold by them contained any gum or
substitute for gum Qther than genuine shellac
gum." The respondent was given thirty days
in which to answer the charges.
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Leather Specially;
Tanned for Player;
Pianos and Organs.
Also Chamois
Sheepskins, Indias
and Skivers
CIlfCINN A.TI, O.
A Specialty of
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10-12 Christopher St., New York
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George H. Harper Co.
Orange, N. J.
National Veneer a Panel Manufacturers' Asso
ciation to Study This Question
Head of United States Forest Service 'Declares
Major Problems Are Land Use and Timber
Supply for American Industry
wan Bo][e., .apalne Slot Bo][e8,
Coin Slide., BeroD .a.,hlne., Hone,.
Bo][e., Pnmp., Pamp Bardware. Spe
.,Ial Part. . . . . . . Order.
Stains
Fillers
Near 6th Ave., and 8th St.
TO STANDARDIZE VENEER GRADES
REPORT OF THE FOREST SERVICE
MonarehTool & Mlg.Co.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Aniline.
Shellacs
Mifflinburg- Body Co., Mifflinburg, Penn., are
addin g one kiln to its present battery of two.
O~ the Pacific Coast the Cascade Pipe &
Flume Co. is erecting two Grand Rapids vapor
kilns to dry its wood conduit material.
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In the South the Navco Hardwood Co. has
added another kiln to its present battery of
four at Navco, Ala., for the drying of gum
dimension stock.
In England the Peyton, Hoyland & Barber
Co. has installed two Grand Rapids vapor kilns.
In addition to the above, there are a number
of other installations scattered in various parts
of the country in the various branches of the
woodworking industry. All of the jobs men
tioned are just about completed or in actual
operation.
AIlT NOVELTVCO.
C;r.clusi"e manufacturers
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Pial\.O Bel\.ch.es
al\.d ~sie eabin.ets
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GO~HEN
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INDIANA
VENEERS
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Pneumatic and
Pouch Skin Leathers
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Oak, Walnut
and SpeclahzlDg on Mahogany.
Capacity.- 5 Million Feet