Show r A SLATTED POTATO BOX Something a Little Cheaper and Perhaps a Little Hutter In the manufacture of the one piece sections we have pieces of basswood left i I that will not make sections on account 1 v of had color unsightly knots checks I t J etc in such quantity tnat we sell during dur-ing the busy season from three to four wagon loads of this kind of wood for kindling almost every day For yearn II J e iillTI L POTATO BOX MADE OF SLATS we have been puzzling our brains to find some use for these refuse pieces of basswood bass-wood but nothing has come up to indicate indi-cate a use for more than a very small part of them until just now A few lays ago Mr Warner the foreman of our woodworking machinery submitted a potato box made entirely of these refuse strips of basswood with the exception ex-ception of the end pieces VVe give you a picture of it below Perhaps might explain that the refuse sticks are put on to the buzz saw and sliced up f inch thick This gives the slats The ends of the box are also made of Finch lumber With our specially made saws we cut the stuff almost as smeoth as it can be made with a plane and as the ends are always planed we have a box that is nice enough to be painted if desirable By using long barbed wire nails and putting two in the end of each strip we get a box strong enough so that tho galvanized iron binding bind-ing can I think be safely omitted and we can make the price all nailed up complete only 20 cents instead of 25 the price of our former potato box 10 boxes nailed up will be sold for 185 100 nailed up for 16 Material in the flat including nails will be 12 per 100 We shall crate them in packages of 12 boxes each at 150 a package and 2 of the 12 will be nailed up The more I use the potato boxes the more I am convinced there should be a good deal of ventilation through them Keeping our seed potatoes over winter last year we found a few rotten ones but they were invariably in the center of the boxes The boxes were raised from the ground by blocks and separated from each other by blocks also so as to allow a full circulation of air Now these slatted boxes will give a better circulation circula-tion than the old kind even if they are simply piled one over the other without any blocks between them at aIFrom Gleanings in Bee Culture |