Helpfal

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Several issues ago I filled the Vagabonds with a discussion of research, what it has done for various industries and products, including lumber. There was lots of kick-back from that discussion. (We even got some advertising as a direct result of it.) It brought me rhany suggestions and some very definite information as to the effects of intelligent research work with regard to lumber, particularly the seasoning of lumber. * * tr(

For instance, one of my lumber manufacturing friends who operates two big sawmills is putting an entire new installation of steam dry kilns in one plant that will handle its entire output. He said to me, "The only trouble about starting these new kilns at this plant is that the lumber will be so immeasurably superior to the lumber produced at our other plant where the kilns are fifteen years old that our customers are all going to want this new type lumber to the disadvantage of our other plant." ***

Maybe he's right. An oil magnate whom I know well, who has specialized in the refining end of the petroleum industry, told me the other day that methods improve so fast in petroleum refining that what was an up-to-the-minute plant ten years ago is absolutely obsolete today, and that the best plant that could be built today would be one hundred per cent obsolete ten years hence.