Government Wood Testing Laboratory
The United States Department of Agriculture has erected in connection with the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in that state, a building for the testing of woods, and will maintain a force of thirty-five or forty persons required to carry on the work. In this institution it will probably have the largest and best equipped wood testing laboratory in the world. The work will lie along the lines of wood preservation, timber testing, and chemical engineering. It certainly ought to be of a great deal of interest to the people of the country to have various kinds of wood tested, and investigations demonstrated along the line of preventing destruction by decay and other causes. The Agricultural Department of the Government is certainly doing good work for the people.