PUTTING WOOD WASTE TO WORK For many years technical studies of wood were neglected.

Detailed investigations of steel, concrete, oil, rubber and other materials were made but wood apparently was forgotten.

It has been only during the last decade since the establishment of the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Forest Service, at Madison, Wisconsin, that tests and experiments to determine the real value of different woods have been begun.

One of the big problems of the government scientists at that station, which is conducted in cooeperation with the University of Wisconsin, is to check the needless waste of wood.

By actual test they find out all about the wasteful practices of lumbering in the woods and mills.