. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. September, 1903 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 23 then cut by a heavy rotary veneering machine. The sheets of veneer are then cut into the shook sizes. For orange boxes the shook is 28 inches long, 10 inches wide and 1-6 inch thick. For lemons the sizes are the same except that the width is 11 inches. The shocks are put up 40 pieces, or ten boxes, in a bundle, and an ordinary cargo contains about 250,000 boxes. The box is made of four of these pieces with three thicker pieces a
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. September, 1903 THE CANADA LUMBERMAN 23 then cut by a heavy rotary veneering machine. The sheets of veneer are then cut into the shook sizes. For orange boxes the shook is 28 inches long, 10 inches wide and 1-6 inch thick. For lemons the sizes are the same except that the width is 11 inches. The shocks are put up 40 pieces, or ten boxes, in a bundle, and an ordinary cargo contains about 250,000 boxes. The box is made of four of these pieces with three thicker pieces at the ends and in the middle. The thick wood is mainly an Austrian product, though Mr. Stewart ships about 500,000 sets annually. One po- tent reason which induces the Italian shippers to buy boxes in this country is that the United States gives a rebate of 15 per cent, on re- importation. The hoops or straps that bind the boxes are produced from an Italian chest- nut. Speaking of the export trade, it is reported that the shipments of American pine and spruce to Germany are being seriously interfered with by a new product which comes from Hungary. About 200,000,000 feet were secured from that source last year, it is said, all of which has cut out just so much pine of Swedish, Can- adian or American origin. MEDICAL ATTENDANCE IN LUMBER CAMPS. Dr. H. P. Bryce, Secretary of the Ontario Board of Health, is working energetically to improve the sanitary condition of lumber camps. He is sending a circular letter to all lumber- men in regard to the matter and calling atten- tion to the new Order-in-Council concerning medical attendance in lumbering and mining camps in the unorganized portions of New On- tario. The Order-in-Council is as follows : Regulation 12 of Regulations for the Sanitary Control of Unorganized Districts be amended by the following section, known as sub-Section " A ". Employers of labor on all works in such districts shall transmit, at the time of the cont
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