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(Continued from Page ,16) plant together with a group picked out of ordinary stock. Coffee distributors used to ship their product in jute sacks. The grocer would dump 25 or 5O pounds of it into a large enameled tin container, from which he would scoop out a pound or tlvo for each customer. That was years ago. rough dirty ends of boards-which often are the principal parts of the material which show when it is piled in a yard or a dealer's warehouse.

As the lumber leaves the re-trim bench, and after it has been re-inspected to make certain that each piece is perfect in every particular, the package is adjusted. One -of the pictures shows D. H. Bartlett of the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products office in St. Paul demonstrating'how this is done. Attached to the labeled cap are two sidd-flanges and a top and bottom flange. On either side of the bottom flange are Lg"ly wrappers which fold around the group of boards. Then the top and bottom flanges are attached to the top and bottom wrap-boards. Their faces are turned in, and the method of attaching is such that the marks left on the reverse sides of the wrap-boards are almost indistinguishable.

In short, the carton fits over the end of the package like a sleeve. There is a certain give in it, a sort of -hingeaction, which enables the boards to shift slightly durirrg handling without detaching the fibre caps. Its fraciicabilit! in this respect is excellently illustrated by the picture showing the loading of the first shipment of -"4-Square" lumber from Cloquet. In each of the mills where this process has been introduced, the new machinery has been initalled near the loading platform. The re-butied lumber is placed on trucks where the package is applied. These trucks then are moved out to the platform, where the lumber is loaded for shipment. The old loading-jack method still is retained, and many carloads of the packaged goods have been loaded and- shipped without the flexure of the boards breaking the packages open.

Here, then, is the story of packaged lumber told in pic- tures. The illustrations take the product all the way through the-mill, and even give a glimpse of its appearance o.n th9 building-lot. Th.I are evidenie, in the firit place, that the project is under full headway and that it has the backing, to the'full extent required, bf the entire Weyer- haeuser organization. Secondly, they give a visual idel of the application of the method and- answer many of the questions that have followed the first announcem.nt of the olan.

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The grocery trade has learned many tricks in merchandising since then, and as a result it now attracts customers by offering its product, ground ready for the coffee pot, in clean, bright-colored, nicely designed containers. Yet, until this new departure was introduced, the lumber industry has gone on trying to attract prospective customers with the

COL. W. B. GREELEY ARRIVES IN NORTHWEST LONGVIEW, Wn., May 16.-Col. W. B. Greelev. formerly Chief Foreste,r of^the llnjte{ States, who recentiy was chosen secretary-mana$er of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, with which the West Coast Lumber Bureau, Longview, recentl;r was consolidated, arrived in Longview yesterday. He was.accompanied by C.J. Hogue, manager of the Bureau's field deparlment, with wtrorri ni recently attended a number of meetings in the East in the interest of the Association

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