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made in Ohio are used as packages for the shipment of candy and 

 tobacco, and for their manufacture cypress and white cedar or 

 juniper shipped from the South Atlantic States were the woods 

 used. Pails and buckets for miscellaneous purposes were made 

 from basswood and white pine, and to a less extent from beech and 

 soft maple. The two latter woods answered as the chief material 

 for freezers and pails. Cypress shipped from Louisiana was 

 imported in large quantities to be converted into ice cream freezers. 

 The manufacturer buys his material for these and also for pails, in 

 the form of bolts of the required length ready to go directly to the 

 stave saws. In New England and the Lake States white pine alone 

 answers as the wood for ice cream freezers, while in Virginia and 

 North Carolina southern white cedar, locally called juniper, served 

 with cypress in almost equal quantities in meeting the demand. 

 Only recently in Ohio has cypress answered as a substitute for 

 white pine as a freezer wood due perhaps not so much to the 

 superior durable quality of cypress, a white wood being preferred, 

 as to the poor grades of the northern white pine now available at a 

 price which justifies its use. The dasher scraper in freezer cans 

 when of wood is made from sugar maple and the handle of the 

 crank used in revolving the can is made of beech or maple. 



Fig. 22. Piling staves in Ohio. 



