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Show Steel Superseding Wood. The substitution of steel for wood goes steadily on. Beginning with January 1, or thereabouts, the National Lead company will pack its white lead in steel kegs, having decided to abandon aban-don the use of wooden kegs. This innovation in-novation is made because the company has concluded that steel kegs will have many advantages over the wooden kegs. In the first place, the steel package does not absorb the oil from the lead as porous wooden packages do, and there is, therefore, no drying and caking of the lead around the edges, making it possible to remove every ev-ery ' particle of white lead easily from the steel keg. The new steel kegs also will be much lighter, as well as being stronger than the wooden ones, and this will effect a saving in freight charges. Taking up less room than the wooden kegs, the new steel package pack-age also will save storage space. |