weight of the larger box (which wat nost economic: 



was. ounds, this "being deed weight on every 4,000 trees 

 shipped. 0?he cost ras.de it desirable to retarn the cr- tes 

 from jobs near the r&ilrot. t their weight made it imprac- 



ticable to return them by r. c> tr? in from Jobs at tance 



from the rail rotas. In reality, only about one-h^lf the 

 crates sent out were returned to the nurse, 1 : . The crate 

 was built ' shipments, hut for the reason given 



above, the cost of crating amounted to 75>t> of the initial 

 cost of the or&tes. This brought the cost of crating 4,000 

 trees to ;} conts, or 5v cents per 1,000. , the boxes 



about 110 pounds, c> heavy and inconvenient container 

 to handle, 



This fall burlap rolls were used in all our 

 shipments, in substitution for the old style wood crate; . 

 The device for ^Mltt the rolls is somewhat on the order 

 of a shingle weaving machine. (See photographs). Eoeeii. 

 tions for this device .re being prepared for Ogden, in 

 ^ordance with circular letter of June 14, 1915, 



SV/o six- font lengths of 1; stened to 



two wooden cleats (the cleats eighteen inches nd 



the tv/o len ,f lath yarn twelve inches apart) two 



feet long by means of poultry netting st e first 



pltcer- in the bottom of the packer. /. strip of burlap 

 six feet long and twenty-one inches wide is placed over 

 the lath yarn and cleats, the burlap is laid 



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