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Such crates are used as containers for a variety of articles such 

 as oil cans, syrup cans, empty bottles, pasteboard boxes, smoked 

 meats, fruits, and light machinery. 



There are in addition to shooks a number of other products 

 which can easily be made from sawmill waste at a box factory. 

 Stock for chair rungs, table legs and other wood turnery articles 

 of a like nature, and for novelty uses of various kinds can be 

 made of pieces too small or narrow for box boards. By installing 

 a band or circular rip-saw, moulding strips may be sawed out 

 of thick clear edging strips. Lumbermen seem to be agreed 

 that there is no profit in making mouldings from stock boards. 

 The use of edgings should yield a return. 



The making of box shooks from sawmill waste is such a 

 new enterprise that few men, either in box factories or sawmills, 

 fully understand it. A box factory superintendent who has never 

 used anything but standard lumber is apt to be out of sympathy 

 with the idea of using waste. For this reason it may be better to 

 place a man from the sawmill in charge, who is without previous 

 prejudices, since in either case a man must be broken into the 

 work. The same is true to a certain extent of rip-sawyers and 

 other skilled workers. 



The success of a box factory using waste depends to a large 

 extent upon the run of orders. Orders for shooks of dimensions 

 which cannot readily be obtained from waste may greatly increase 

 the cost of manufacture, or make it necessary to use standard 

 lumber to fill them. Except at very large plants, a box factory 

 will not be of sufficient capacity to keep a special box salesman 

 busy disposing of its output. Since lumber salesmen seldom 

 have much knowledge of boxes or of the patterns which can be 

 made from waste it is desirable that the superintendent have the 

 power to refuse or cancel orders which it is not for the interest of 

 the factory to accept. Mills with waste enough to manufacture 

 only a small quantity of shooks might be able to make arrange- 

 ments through regular box companies. 



There is always the danger that the box factory will come 

 to be regarded too much in the light of a catch-all, and material 

 will be sent to it that could be more profitably utilized in other 

 ways. There is no economy in sending mis-manufactured boards 

 to the box factory if they can be remanufactured or trimmed with- 

 out a loss of more than a third of their footage. Yet it is gen- 



