Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1883 — Straw Lumber. [ARTICLE]

Straw Lumber.

The somewhat-startling prophecy is hazarded that in the future lumber will be of stray instead of wood. Experiments already instituted show that it it make “wood” or its substitute from straw, of a tensile strength surpassing ordinary building woods. This material is capable of being carried through all the manipulation that wood is, aoes not shrink, takes a high polish, and is waterproof. In short it not only answers all the purposes of wood, but is vastly better than it. There are two waste substances which have never yet been made profitable to man; and these are coal-dust and wooddust, commonly called saw-dust. If any one can ntilize these and turn them into lumber or fuel, it will be a substantial advantage.— Mechanical Engineer. Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet evreybody is content to hoar.—John Selden.