. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER N'ovember ), 163« iinonj>' ouv ciKstumcrs, and our terrilury covers quite a range, we have not had a single customer asking us for tlie square unit in prefer- ence to the thousand. VVe admit that the price on the square unit ompares more readily with ready rooting prices; further, with the present method of putting up the L5. C. shingles by the square unit and the thousand the ])rices quoted the contractor or private in
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER N'ovember ), 163« iinonj>' ouv ciKstumcrs, and our terrilury covers quite a range, we have not had a single customer asking us for tlie square unit in prefer- ence to the thousand. VVe admit that the price on the square unit ompares more readily with ready rooting prices; further, with the present method of putting up the L5. C. shingles by the square unit and the thousand the ])rices quoted the contractor or private indi- \ idual are frecpiently misleading. VVe have often during the past summer found that quotations were given .so much per square in (.ompetition with quotations hy the and invariably the purchaser's attention had not been called to the methods of |)Utting U[) shingles. In the last analysis it is really niimaterial which way the shingles are put up as long as both the buyer and seller understand the difFerence and are perfectly frank with each other, l)ut we do feel that either one or the other method should be fol- lowed. Dual System Leads to Confusion. iSi. M. Bearinger, of the Mlniira Planing Mill Co., Limited, Llniira, Ont.—We have an extensive country trade and are handling siiingles packed both by the square and !)y the thousand. The i)ack- ing by the square seems to have taken well so far although the fact that we handle both has often brought us into difiliculties. One cus- tomer would bu\ by the square and the next by the thousand. Then I hey would compare prices by the bunch and we have often had to make hasty explanations in order to save our rei)Utation, as they would invariably not consider the size of the bunch and would accuse us of having two prices for the same article. As far as our trade is concerned, we think that either way of packing would l)e acceptable, although we would earnestly suggest that only one method of pack- ing should
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