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ines working in continuity and in coordination transform many millions of feet of various kinds of hardwood lumber every month into manufactured articles of a thousand different sorts. chief in interest to the retail lun-rber trade being marvelous interior trim and mouldings from Southern Gum and Oak; storing, wrapping, and shipping facilities of a de luxe character that guarantee to the buyer the arrival of the goods in perfect condition and order.

The flooring plant is a beauty. Five end-matched flooring units stand in a row, turning out about 2,500,000 feet monthly of oak, beech, and pecan flooring. In the big steel warehouse where flooring is stored they carry 82 items of hardwood flooring ready for shipment. The entire storage department is floored with concrete, and everv device is used to keep out the dust and dirt. There is a flooring loading dock the full length of the flooring storage shed, and a specially made checking machine that resembles an adding machine in its operation, checks the lumber that goes int<r the cars. The railroad cars in which flooring is shipped are completely and carefully lined with paper to keep out dust, dirt, soot, etc. In addition to the flooring oak manufactured in their own big hardwood sawmill, Bradley likewise buys flooring oak from mills throughout their entire territory, furnishing their hardwood neighbors a constant and dependable market for oak that will make flooring. The.v make standard frooring in oak, beech, and pecan; oak plank flooring; also "nail-seated" flooring in oak and beech.

Recently Bradley installed into its flooring operations an improvement that they consider one of the mosf advanced in the history of hardwood flooring manufacture; straight-