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The average beer keg of eight gallons ca- 

 Beer pacity sells for $2.25 to $2.35 and has a 



Kegs. life varying from 3 to 10 years. It is some- 



times refilled as often as twice a week but 

 if it is assumed that the cost is $2.25, refilling 50 times a year, 

 average life 4 years and $1.75 for repairs on the basis of 25 

 cents for each replaced stave and 28 cents for each new hoop, 

 the cost of the package would amount to one-fourth of a cent 

 for each gallon as against approximately four cents a gallon for 

 glass bottles. 



Barrel and Box, October, 1910. 



One- fifth to one-sixth of all the sawmilV 

 Wooden output of the United States is made into 



cmd boxes and most of this is low grade ma- 



Piher terial that remains after sorting. In 19 10, 



Boxes. the Forest Service carried out an investi- 



gation in Massachusetts, Maryland, North: 

 Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois and Wisconsin and found a total 

 use of 1,137,137,000 feet or 63 feet per capita. At this rate 

 there was a falling off of 1,000,000,000 feet from the year 1907. 

 The material for fiber boxes is largely produced by pulp mills 

 and usually completed by box mills that glue and cut the boxes. 

 The size of fiber boxes, thickness of board, and minimum' 

 strength of board are governed by the regulations of railroads 

 and are strictly enforced. The three sizes specified are 60, 80 and 

 100 points — ^that is 60, 80, and 100 one-thousandths of an inch 

 respectively. The 60 point box must not have its three dimen- 

 sions exceed 65 inches with a filled weight of 40 pounds ; the 

 80 point box must not have its three dimensions exceed 70 

 inches and the 100 pound box must not exceed 75 inches and a 

 filled weight of 90 pounds. Express companies will accept 

 weaker boxes than railroads. 



In this investigation 57 per cent of the fiber boxes were found' 

 to be made from chip, 22 per cent, from straw, 16 per cent, from 

 wood pulp and 5 per cent, from jute. 



In a general way the fiber boxes cost 10 per cent, less than 

 wooden boxes. 90.6 per cent, of all boxes are wood against 

 9.4 of fiber if based on surface measure. Competition be- 

 tween the two kinds of boxes is active for comparatively smalt 



