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erally easier for the planing mill to send such material to the box 

 factory than to deal with it themselves. Likewise, it is easier 

 for the box factory to use such material than to use waste, hence 

 it is not likely to protest. In the sawmill itself, the knowledge 

 that heavy slabs and edgings and long trimmings will all be used 

 in the box factory may encourage carelessness on the part of 

 sawyers and others unless a sharp watch is kept. At the average 

 mill which has no other way of utilizing waste, enough of it 

 must necessarily accumulate to stock the box factory without 

 permitting lax cutting to obtain it. 



It should not cost more than from $10 to $12 per thousand 

 feet of shooks to manufacture them from sawmill waste. The 

 average selling price of a grade made from Southern Yellow 

 pine is about $15. However, it will generally prove that shooks 

 cannot be as cheaply manufactured from waste as from standard 

 lumber — or at as great a profit. This need not dismay the lumber- 

 man who is cutting woods suitable for box manufacture, for 

 ordinarily his waste is of no value and it is an expense to him to 

 dispose of it, so if, by a small investment in labor and machinery, 

 he can turn it to even a small profit, it is that much added to his 

 income. As before remarked, the use of waste in this way is an 

 advantage to the public, since the close utilization of our timber 

 resources is the practice of conservation, and therefore an eco- 

 nomic gain to all. 



