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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 Iho correct proportion and still make It light In weight Is a matter that can aot be carried out without some thought and experimenting and for '.his reason I have drawn plans and built sample crates In an experimental experiment-al way until the result Is satisfactory & me, and I feel sure will be to those . via0j 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 sny number of these crates of a certain cer-tain size he can best go to a box factory fac-tory or mill and have them cut to order. or-der. The long stock should consist of soards any length six Inches wide by ;hree-elghths inch thick to be used for oottom. Slats any length three Inches wide by three-eighths inch Jiick. Frame stock any length three Inches wide by three-fourths inch thick. Common stock spruce surfaced :wo sides. It will be found desirable to make ;hree sizes of these crates of a suitable suit-able height for broilers and fryers and it least two sizes for mature fowl and or turkeys. |