. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Overhead cost figures largely in all disbursements of business enterprises at the present day. The ever vital program is to keep this item down and at the same time give efficiency and service. It is a difficult problem to cut here, pare there and lop off some place else without creating dissatisfaction, slowing up producing .pro- cesses, curtailing or cheapening the output. Time and labor-saving devices and systems are always at hand, some of. which do
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Overhead cost figures largely in all disbursements of business enterprises at the present day. The ever vital program is to keep this item down and at the same time give efficiency and service. It is a difficult problem to cut here, pare there and lop off some place else without creating dissatisfaction, slowing up producing .pro- cesses, curtailing or cheapening the output. Time and labor-saving devices and systems are always at hand, some of. which do all that is claimed for them but others appear to be of little value or benefit except in theory or outlook. However, there are several inventions that have come to the front in handling lumber that result in both the saving of labor and in the economy of time. Unloading, handling, piling, transferring and delivering lumber are all every-day operations in the ordinary yard. Anything that will tend to cut down the waste of hours, material or effort, is gen-. The new way—electric power erally welcome and accepted. Nearly every yardman will listen to any proposition which is destained to reduce his overhead costs or, in other words, makes him money. Overhead seems to be clim'bing incessantly in nearly all business enterprises without any corres- ponding gain in net profits or earnings. One of the tasks which has to 'be performed frequently by the retail lumber dealer and saw and planing mill man is to take lumber from the yard and transfer it to the dry 'kiln. This is a slow process with a great many firms. The yard foreman has to round up his. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
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