. Canadian wood products industries. t the shipments, if shipped in properlydesigned containers, usually reach the consignee ingood condition. This of course, means more promptpayment of invoices, greater turnover for the retailerwith a consequent increase in the manufacturersoutput, and the good will of the trade—one of themanufacturers most valued possessions and whichall are striving to obtain. Crating Lumber Let us discuss the question of costs; first, in con-nection with crating lumber. On this point differentplants have radically different ideas which run from ?Container engineer, Freigh
. Canadian wood products industries. t the shipments, if shipped in properlydesigned containers, usually reach the consignee ingood condition. This of course, means more promptpayment of invoices, greater turnover for the retailerwith a consequent increase in the manufacturersoutput, and the good will of the trade—one of themanufacturers most valued possessions and whichall are striving to obtain. Crating Lumber Let us discuss the question of costs; first, in con-nection with crating lumber. On this point differentplants have radically different ideas which run from ?Container engineer, Freight Container Bureau, American RailwayAssociation. the one extreme of buying crating lumber cut to sizeS2S, to the other extreme of buying what practicallyamounts to saw-mill refuse, knotty, waney, barky lumber, or rotted, tongue-and-groove, reject flooring. As a general rule, furniture shippers of either class V- Ooe /{*^ v<zAca\ Z-One /t*^ Wor»tocAo.\ Three J£«4 3\a\i,dia^ono\ brace 6\aclonal Wace Ho dia<jooa\ brace. Fig. 2—Boxes with diagonal braces are stronger than those withcross slats as shown in Fig. 4 are losing money, the only possible exception beingwhere a plant produces large quantities of one pro-duct and buys its crating lumber cut to size, hut evenin such a case it is usually advisable to use a type ofcontainer other than a wooden crate, such as, for ex-ample, a wirebound box or crate, or a veneer panelbox, or a strawboard or nbreboard box, the one to beused obviously depending on the article beingshipped. Most furniture manufacturers purchase lumberfrom a source some distance from their plant and as
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