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As during the War of 1914-18 so in the present War, the utilization of forest products has assumed a first-class importance in India. During the War of 1914-18 the exports from the Indian forests, mainly timber and forage, went chiefly to the Middle East. But India herself had to become self-supporting in several commodities such as, for example, soap, matches, bobbins for weaving and even to a greater extent railway sleepers, when these products could no longer reach her by import. This state of affairs has repeated itself during the present War, but has bocome more exacting through the greater demand on India to provide war supplies for her own needs and including those of a rapidly expanding modern army. This position fully explains the reason for the inevitable expansion of the work of the Utilization Branch of the Dehra Dun Forest Research Institute. Research on timber-seasoning kilns has already boon dealt with (see NATURE, July 25, 1942, p. 127). Indian Forest Leaflet No. 34, Utilization (1943), “Types of Timber Seasoning Kilns suitable for drying Indian Woods”, revises Leaflet No. 11, issued on the subject. Leaflet No. 33 (1943) deals with the detailed design of timber roof trusses made with disk dowel joints. Timber structures fitted in this fashion have not previously been used in India. The data incorporated in the leaflet are the result of actual tests carried out in the laboratories of the Institute.
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Utilization Investigations of Forest Products. Nature 152, 242 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152242b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152242b0