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Cost In the South in a mill running about 40,000 



of staves per day, the cost is as follows : 

 Staves. 



Labor (to produce and pile in yard), $1.20 per M. 



Office, supervision, repairs, etc., .57 " " 



Packing, hauling, loading, .78 " " 



Timber (i cd. per 1000 staves) at $2.50, 2.50 " " 



Total, $5.05 " " 



On account of "moulding" during the very humid atmosphere 

 in summer only 40 per cent of the staves can be classed as No. i, 

 while 50 per cent is given as an average for the 6 months of sum- 

 mer. In the winter 75 per cent may be classed as No. i. — Barrel 

 and Box. 



The manufacture of cooperage for salt is 



Cooperage especially interesting to saw mill men be- 



of cause pine staves may be used and because 



Salt barrels. they may be made from scrap material 



around the mill. Almost any kind of stave 

 can be used, the narrow one is the favorite because it will not 

 "buckle in" when swollen on the inside from the moisture drawn 

 by the salt. This gives the opportunity to use stock 2 inches wide. 

 Another interesting relation between the salt industry and its 

 cooperage is in the geographical distribution of the sources of 

 supply. The six leading states in production of salt are Michigan, 

 New York, Ohio, Kansas, Louisiana, and California. Each is in 

 or near the center of a lumber region. The fact that the salt in- 

 dustry is a regular and stable industry that fluctuates very little 

 is again a point of interest. — St. Louis Lumberman. 



The British Admiralty has placed an order 

 Utilization for 200,000 feet of Canadian white spruce 



Notes. to be manufactured into oars for the row- 



boats of warships. The white spruce grown 

 on Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia, was 

 long ago discovered by the naval officers to be of superior quality 

 and ideally adapted for making oars. This wood is now exclu- 

 sively used for that purpose on British war vessels. — Canada 

 Lumberman & Woodworker, Nov., 191 1. 



