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Show BUILDING A SHIPPING CRATE To Get Correct Proportion and Still Make It Light Is Matter Requiring Requir-ing Thought and Experimenting. To build a strong shipping crate in the correct proportion and still make It light in weight is a matter that can not be carried out without Borne thought and experimenting and for this reason I have drawn plans and built sample crates in an experimental experiment-al way until the result, is satisfactory to me, and I feel sure 'Will be to those Poultry Shipping Crate. who wish to build crates after this pattern, writes E. F. Barry, in the Successful Farming. The drawing will give a corect idea of how to put the crates together and the following lumber bills will if followed fol-lowed give correct results. - The material, if a person is to use any number of these crates of a certain cer-tain size he can best go to a box fao-tory fao-tory or mill and have them cut to order. or-der. The long stock should consist of boards any length six inches wide by three-eighths inch thick to be used for bottom. Slats any length three Inches wide by three-eighths inch thick. Frame stock any length three Inches wide by three-fourths inch thick. Common stock spruce surfaced two sides. It will be found desirable to make three sizes of these crates of a suitable suit-able height for broilers and fryers and at least two sizes for mature fowl and for turkeys. |