. Canadian forest industries January-June 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 96 CANADA LUMBERMAN March 15, 1921 interviewed and the department affected g'ets a credit for the lost time, which does not affect the monthly percentage. Mr. Germain states that he has doubled his production in three departments and he has also improved his yard service to a point of great efficiency, as there are now no delavs in de- liveries of lumber to the mach- ines. Every foreman looks out for his supplies. Many men re- turn at night to inspect the
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 96 CANADA LUMBERMAN March 15, 1921 interviewed and the department affected g'ets a credit for the lost time, which does not affect the monthly percentage. Mr. Germain states that he has doubled his production in three departments and he has also improved his yard service to a point of great efficiency, as there are now no delavs in de- liveries of lumber to the mach- ines. Every foreman looks out for his supplies. Many men re- turn at night to inspect their machines and put them in shape to start at the hrst turn of the engine in the morning. When the production is way above the minimum allotted, the bonus is worked on the extra footage produced, thus encouraging the foremen to do still better every month. An}- defective material is charged to the foreman and taken out of his wages so as to prevent any possible slackness or neglect to increase produc- tion at the expense of quality. The yards have a combined capacity of six million feet of lumber, divided in two sections, one for hardwoods for the hardwood flooring department, and one for softwoods for the planing mill department. A third and smaller yard is used for storing lumber used in the woodworking factories such as pine, basswood, clear rough Fir, etc. An unusual system of stock-keeping is in operation under the supervision of the Cost Ac- counting Department. Every lumber pile bottom bears a number which is never changed and the stock clerk's book contains a sheet bearing a corresponding number and the details of the stock contained in each pile. The stock clerk daily checks up with the piles in the yards the feet in the piles which have been handled during the previous day, adding or deducting the necessary quantities on the corresponding sheet in his book. In order to avoid errors, the yard foreman puts a signal (a piece of thin board painted in red) on each pil
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