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and local ones must be made. If so, use hard wood, and 

 make your boxes about the size given above, for small boxes 

 add much to the cost of freight. 



Let the planks be f inch thick, for \ inch, that is, -f inch 

 boards are not strong enough, except they are of teak or any 

 other very good wood. 



Take care the joints of the several pieces composing the 

 sides and ends do not coincide at the corners, for if they do 

 the box is very apt to come asunder. 



The best way to arrange the pieces is as described above 

 in the Rangoon boxes. 



' A form ' must be made on which the inner leaden case 

 shall be constructed, that is, a well-made, smooth box, to 

 fit exactly into the box you pack in. It must be some 

 3 inches higher than the interior of the original box, 

 and have bars running across inside, for handles to lift it 

 up, and let the lead case slip off it, after it (the lead case) is 

 finished. 



Solder your lead case, over your form, in the way to 

 waste least lead. In the Rangoon boxes described, two 

 large, two small sheets 1 and one piece, 22 by 9 inches (let 

 in between the two large sheets) suffices, and there is little or 

 no waste. 



The lead case ready, hold up the form by the inner rods, 

 and let the case slide off. Put it at once into the packing- 

 box, taking care no nails protrude inside, or anything else 

 which will hurt it, and thus prepare all the boxes for the 

 break of Tea you are about to pack. 



One great advantage the Rangoon boxes, and in fact all 

 machine-sawn boxes, have, is their equal, or nearly equal, 

 weight. Purchasers of Teas, at the public auctions, require 

 ' the tare ' of boxes to be as near the same weight as possible. 

 If the tares differ, say more than half-a-pound, the Tea 



1 Large lead is 37 by 22 inches ; small lead, 25 by 19 inches. 

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