122 Forestry Quarterly 



Nimiber of days worked, 140; average per day, 58,685 feet; 

 average log, 982 feet. 



Note: Office records show an additional estimated overhead 

 charge of 30 cents per thousand covering general office expenses, 

 marine insurance and accident liability insurance. 



O. L. S. 



Ltxmber Trade Journal, November 1, 19 U. 



Clothes pins are made from several species 



Manufacture of wood but beech is used to a greater extent 



of than any other. Elm, oak. Yellow pine, 



Clothes Pins cedar, locust and White or Paper birch are 



also used. The raw material is procured 



at a clothes pin factory in the form of logs. The logs are sawed 



into bolts about 16 inches long; the bolts are sawed into boards 



%-inch thick by an ordinary shingle saw; the boards are converted 



into %-inch squares by a gang saw and then cut into 5-inch lengths. 



These pieces ^-inch square by 5 inches long are then turned into 



clothes pins by automatic lathes. The slot is next cut by a peculiar 



arrangement of knives inserted into a circular saw which gives 



the slot the proper flange. The clothes pins are then poUshed by 



a friction process. This is accomplished by putting the clothes 



pins in cylinders or drimis which revolve, each cylinder holding 



about forty bushels of clothes pins, and the rubbing of the clothes 



pins against each other makes them as smooth as if polished with 



the finest sand paper. A few minutes before the polishing process 



is complete, a small amount of tallow is thrown into the cyHnders 



which gives them a gloss. 



Forest Service Notes. 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY 



The trade treaty between Russia and 



Russian Timber Germany was about to expire and a new one 



Export to was in contemplation when the war broke 



Germany out. The trade treaty between these two 



countries throws some sidelight on their 



economic relations and may explain to some extent the present 



conflict. 



For the last few years there has been a growing resentment in 



