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THE
DECEMBER 6, 1924
MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
49
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Where Waste Takes
Place in the Factory
Conference on Utilization of Forest Products
Points Out Present Lumber Waste in the
Factories
In connection witli the recent conference on
the Utilization of Forest Products held at
Washington, a pamphlet was distributed to
wood-working trades throughout the country to
point out the magnitude of economic waste to
the lumber supply in manufacturing plants.
Piano, furniture and automobile factories are in-
cluded among those industries which incur the
heaviest mill losses in remanufacturing proc-
esses.
"Wastes and losses in remanufacture," says
the pamphlet, "are those which occur in the
production of finished articles from lumber and
dimensional material. Cutting up the lumber
and dressing it to the proper sizes and shapes
are the principal operations in which the waste
occurs. For instance, only from 25 per cent to
40 per cent of the lumber remanufactured into
furniture and chairs appears in the finished
product, the remainder being lost or wasted.
The total of all remanufacturing losses exceeds
in amount the equivalent of one-half billion cu-
bic feet of standard timber annually.
"About 55 per cent of the volume of the log
as it enters the sawmill emerges as useful prod-
uct. The remaining 45 per cent is lost in bark,
saw kerf, slabs, edgings and trimmings and
culls due to mismanufacture. The annual gross
loss is thus over 2.8 billion cubic feet of stand-
ing timber. Since some of this waste is con-
verted into Jath, box shooks and other small
products, the net loss is appreciably less.
"Losses in the barking, chipping and grinding
operations in making wood pulp and converting
the pulp into paper are estimated at about 720,-
000 cords per year. A large percentage of the
loss occurs in barking, particularly when knife
barkers are used. The losses are sometimes as
high as 33 per cent of the net volume.
"In the logging of saw timber for lumber and
other sawed products, almost 2.3 billion cubic
feet of standing timber per annum is lost or
wasted. This item comprises stumps and tops,
trees shattered in felling, small and defective
logs, trees of little used species, material wasted
through carelessness or lack of judgment in
bucking, the losses resulting from damage
through sky-line logging. The loss is equiva-
lent to about 28 per cent of the stand involved
in the operation. Woods losses in saw timber
manufactured into other than sawed products
amount to about 1.2 billion cubic feet every
year, and in material smaller than saw timber
to almost two billion cubic feet per year. The
total of all the woods losses is about 5.5 billion
cubic feet per year, or about 24 per cent of the
forest drain.
"Mechanical defects such as checks and
cracks, loosening of knots, warping, splitting,
twisting, cupping, etc., are in general caused by
the seasoning process and are usually termed
seasoning defects. They result in a reduction in
. the quality of the board or in the salable vol-
ume, or both. They may occur at almost any
period during the manufacture and use of wood.
The principal losses, however, occur at the saw-
mill and at the remanufacturing plant, because
it is at these points that most of the seasoning
is done."
A. W. Johnston Visits West
BBIDGEPORT, CONN., November 28.—A. W. John-
ston, of the Cornwall & Patterson Mfg. Co., of
this city, and well known throughout the entire
piano industry, returned to Bridgeport in time
to spend Thanksgiving home. Mr. Johnston
had been away several weeks traveling through-
out the Middle West and calling upon his many
business friends in that section of the piano
trade.
STANDARD
(CAMBRIDGE.)
Piano Actions
Write for a sample can of Behlen's
Varnish Crack Eradicator and try it.
Once you learn how much it means to
you in the saving of time on your refin-
ishing jobs by eliminating the necessity
of scraping off old varnish and shellac,
and how much more satisfactory are
the results, because of the better sur-
face it gives to work on, you, like
others,, will continue to use it.
he Standard Action company
Cambridge, ^Massachusetts
Write to-day.
Heavy Orders Placed
for Piano Hardware
W. C. Hess, of American Piano Supply Co.,
Reports Manufacturers Have Anticipated
Wants
Piano hardware merchants have had little to
complain of this Fall with respect to the
promptness with which advance orders are be-
ing sent in by piano manufacturers, according
to William C. Hess, vice-president and New
York manager of the 'American Piano Supply
Co., Inc. "It is evident that a big Fall and
Christmas business has been anticipated by
practically every manufacturer in the trade,"
said Mr. Hess, "for most of the orders received
were not only far in advance, but were usually
for large quantities of stock.
"With conditions thus adjusted, the American
Piano Supply Co. has been consistently busy
all along, and many unnecessary telegrams and
long-distance telephone calls have been elim-
inated.
The manufacturers seem to have
learned the lesson that it is cheaper to order
early, and even the retailer has been benefited
by receiving his shipments more quickly."
A. K. Gutsohn Reports
Good Business Conditions
Superintendent of Standard Pneumatic Action
Co., Back From New England, Talks on
Conditions
A. K. Gutsohn, superintendent of the Stand-
ard Pneumatic Action Co., New York, has just
returned from an extensive trip through New
England, where he called on many sources of
supply for Standard Pneumatic actions as well
as numerous piano factories using Standard
player actions. Mr. Gutsohn states that he
found the piano industry booming, working on
overtime schedules for the most part to get out
rush orders from retailers.
"I was gratified to find," Mr. Gutsohn stated,
"that the continuance of the Coolidge adminis-
tration has stimulated not only the piano manu-
facturing field in Massachusetts and Connecti-
cut but also general industrial plants. I found
few evidences of unemployment on my last trip,
compared with conditions as I found them ear-
lier in the year. I am positive that this will be
the most prosperous Fall in the history of the
Standard Pneumatic, and I am certain that our
activity will be shared by the New England
piano industry."
WHITE, SON CO.
Manufacturers of
ORGAN AND PLAYER-PIANO
THE
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Aniline*
Shellacs
Cxclusive manufacturers of
Stains
Fillers
10-12 Christopher St., New York
Near «th AT*., and 8th St.
AHJNOVELTYCO.
Piarvo Beivehes
and M:\isie Cabinets
GOSHEN
\lfcit% for catalog QJML details
INDIANA
LEATHERS
530-540 Atlantic Ave., BOSTON, MASS.
For over 25 years Specialists
in high grade Piano Cases
Paterson Piano
Case Co.
PATERSON, N. J.