LUMBER CO.

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and A. D. Nutting, Forest Commissioner of Maine and president, Association of State Foresters. Some 600 representatives of forest industries, protection and management from the Western United States and Canada attended.

Foresf Products Reseorch Society

Tour Fibreboord Plqnt qt Antioch

Forty-five members of the Forest Products Research Society gathered at the huge Fibreboard Products Company Antioch plant on October 28 f.or a conducted tour of its mammoth facilities. The group was shown the complete evolution of paper, from the log on, various experiments utilizing the forgotten wood-eucalyptus-in the manufacture of paper, the entirely mechanical assenibly of various types of paper cartons, and one of the world's largest hydraulic log barkers in operation.

Following the tour, the members met at the El Rio Rancho hotel in Antioch fora dinner meeting. Afterdinner speakers for the occasion were W. B. Lindberg, superintendent of wood procurement, F'ibreboard Products Company, and Robert J. Seidl, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, 'Wis. Lindberg gave an interesting talk on the "Economics of Waste Wood Utilization" pertaining to waste and chips from sawmill slabs. Seidl presented a thought-provoking paper entitled "Development of New Uses for Paper Modified Properties." He also outlined many of the various experiments that the Forest Products Laboratory is currently running in an. effort to increase lumber's place in modern construction.