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JANUARY 10, 1925
THE
MUSIC TRADE
REVIEW
37
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Lumber Distribution in
Black Walnut Conditions
the Hardwood Field
in the United States
United States Department of Agriculture Re-
ports Available Supply at 820,000,000 Board
Feet
Some interesting data on the uses and dis-
tribution of American (black) walnut trees is
contained in a recent report of the United States
Department of Agriculture, which estimates the
total amount of standing black walnut timber at
about 820,000,000 board feet. The report states
that about half of the total amount is situated
in inaccessible places remote from the railroads
or held by owners not wanting to sell.
In many sections of the country plantings of
black walnut trees are being made for future
use of this valuable wood, and it is an industry
that will well repay farm owners to consider.
Plantings of small seedlings can be made in
the waste portions of farms and where situa-
tions are adapted to its growth it is a mod-
erately rapid grower.
In central Indiana and Ohio "grove" walnut
has been found to average something like thirty-
five feet in height at twenty years, fifty-three
feet at thirty years, sixty-eight feet at fifty
years. And this is the lifetime of a man. This
is a growth of nearly two feet a year at twenty
years, slowing down gradually to about a foot
a year at thirty-five years.
The United States Department of Agricul-
ture gives a measurement of 128 trees, scattered
through six States, and ranging in age from ten
to thirty years, which showed a growth of one
inch in diameter (at breast height) over two
and one-half years; at thirty to fifty years about
an inch in three years; at fifty to seventy years
an inch in four to five years. Single trees or
trees grown in rows in the open would show
faster growth than the figures given. The aver-
age diameter of twelve closely planted stands
of trees has been given for trees twenty-five
years old as six and three-tenths inches, with a
yield of fourteen and eight-tenths cords of wood
per acre. This means at present 359 trees to
the acre. For singly grown trees this would
be considerably more.
Consult the Universal Want Directory of
The Review. In it advertisements are inserted
free of charge for men who desire positions.
National Lumber Manufacturers' Association
Discusses Centers of Demand and of Supply
Some valuable facts of particular interest to
buyers of hardwood lumber and to those in tin-
woodworking industries have been set forth re-
cently by the National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association in the third of its series of lumber
distribution articles. "Hardwood stands arc
scattered over almost the entire country," the
pamphlet states, "but the three great hardwood
areas are the Lake States, the Appalachian
region and the South Central or Lower Missis-
sippi Valley section."
The North Atlantic States, with Illinois, Ohio
and Michigan, are the important points of des-
tination in hardwood lumber distribution, and
represent the important manufacturing centers
(with the exception of Michigan) for the piano,
phonograph and radio industries. The Michigan
consumption of hardwood, of course, is trace-
able to the furniture and automobile industries,
in such points as Grand Rapids, Lansing and
Detroit.
The North Atlantic States, especially New
York and Pennsylvania, take a substantial pro-
portion of the output of the hardwood mills oi
the Appalachian territory, which in this survey
includes some of the Southern States as far as
Tennessee. Considering all these hardwood
regions, oak is the leading wood, and is being
still used by many piano manufacturers as
veneer stock. Other hardwoods in great de-
mand as plywood filler stock include maple, pop-
lar and chestnut, and are to be found in large
quantities in the Southern States, such as North
Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, parts of
Georgia and South Carolina, etc. Oak, mostly
white oak, makes up 41 per cent of the total
of the woods distributed from this section, ac-
cording to compilations of detailed sales reports
for the last six months of 1923; poplar is 19.7
per cent; chestnut, 16 per cent; basswood, nearly
5 per cent; gum, nearly 4 per cent. Other
species covered in the tabulations, and with
those named included here under "all species,"
are maple, 3 per cent of total; ash, 2 per cent;
tupelo, 1.8 per cent; beech, bJrch, hickory, elm,
walnut, buckeye and several minor species, mak-
ing up altogether about 10 per cent of the total.
About 7 per cent of the total distribution was
exported, oak and poplar being the leading
woods sent abroad from this section.
potential saving of more than $15,000,000 an-
nually to the business concerns of the country
through the adoption of such standard forms.
The invitations sent out by the division of
simplified practice call the attention of more
than 1,200 trade associations to the proposals
and ask them lu designate some one to repre-
sent their interests at the forthcoming meeting.
It is pointed out that there are four funda-
mental steps in any purchasing transaction:
Inquiry, selection, purchase and payment; and
that the shortest, simplest and most effective
methods of handling each of these four are of
utmost importance to modern business. The
analysis of the proposed standard invoice form
developed from a study of thousands of forms.
Sigler Player Action Go.
Issues Safety Calendar
Back of Each Monthly Sheet Contains Series of
Safety Rules Issued by the National Council
An attractive 1925 calendar, endorsing the
safety idea in the shop and home, has just
been issued by the Sigler Player Action Co..
Hastings, Mich., and mailed to the trade. The
calendar is of the type designed by the Na-
tional Safety Council, Chicago, and includes a
set of general safety precautions and instruc-
tions on the back of each monthly sheet. A
handsome colored picture adorns the top of
each page, to point out the common hazards
of everyday life.
A novel feature of the safety instructions is
the paragraph devoted to the fire-dangers con-
nected with the present use of radio. It is
pointed out that even in using a six-volt stor-
age battery sufficient current is generated to
start a fire if the terminals or wires leading
from them become crossed. The suggestion is
made that, to be on the safe side, every radio
installation be examined by the local electrical
inspection bureau before it is placed in service.
The Sigler calendar is a valuable addition to
any wall on which it may be hung.
STANDARD
(CAMBRIDGE.)
Piano Actions
Confer on Standard
Forms for Business
The man who uses Behlen's Varnish
Crack Eradicator can afford to figure
lower, yet makes more profit on a re-
finishing job, than the man who does
not use it.
The reason—he saves the time, trouble
and expense of scraping off the old var-
nish and shellac and the finished job is
just as satisfactory, too—if not more so.
Send for a sample can today and
try it.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
Inquiry, Purchase, Order and Invoice Forms to
Be Discussed at Government Conference on
January 14
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 2.—A conference,
to be held here January 14, has just been called
by the Department of Commerce in an effort
to bring about economies in current commercial
practice through the adoption of standard in-
quiry, purchase, order and invoice forms. The
National Association of Purchasing Agents, at
whose request the meeting was called, declares
that a survey by that organization indicates a
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