ers in their own region, but have been able to ship the best grades 

 of shooks to the meat packing- centers of Chicago and Omaha. 

 With the opening of the Panama Canal, Pacific Coast shooks are 

 likely to enter eastern markets. 



Woods Used. 



In general the requirements for box material are that it shall 

 be cheap, plentiful, light in weight, and capable of holding nails 

 without splitting. Other qualities are demanded for particular 

 k'nds of boxes. Those which are meant to hold certain food stuffs 

 are made from woods that are odorless, tasteless and stainless. 

 Further, some .kinds of boxes must be sufficiently light in color 

 to show stenciling and printing. Some strength is required in all 

 boxes, but a great degree of strength is demanded only for export 

 boxes or for boxes in which heavy merchandise is shipped. For 

 this reason, box makers do not demand one kind of wood greatly 

 in excess of other k'nds. The species most used differs in different 

 regions, usually according to the local supply. 



The quantity of each kind of wood used annually in the 

 United States for the manufacture of boxes is shown in Table 2. 

 This table has been compiled, not by botanical species, but by 

 groups of closely related species which are often classed together 

 in the lumber trade. 



TABLE 2 WOOD USED IN THE U. S. FOR BOXES 

 AND CRATES. 



Quantity used 



annually. 

 Kind of Wood. Feet B. M. 



White Pine 1,131,969,940 



Yellow Pine 1,042,936.123 



Red Gum 401,735,390 



Spruce 335,935,643 



Western Yellow Pine 288,691,927 



Cottonwood 210,819,509 



Hemlock 203.526,091 



Yellow Poplar 165,116,737 



Maple 96,831,648 



Birch 90,787,900 



Basswood 86.979.61 1 



Beech , 77,899,280 



Tupelo 74.982,910 



Elm 63.726,458 



Oak 56,362.111 



Balsam Fir 40.173,700 



Cypress 38.962,895 



Chestnut 36,216,700 



Sugar Pine 24.686.000 



Sycamore 16.451.693 



Ash 10.507,308 



Willow 10,004,600 



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