Report Volume 117 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...feet, lumber measure, or its equivalent of 7,700,000,000 square feet, for box shooks. This equivalent was calculated, for purposes of comparison, by assuming that the average box shook is about one-half inch thick, and hence that a foot board measure is equal to two surface feet of shook. Further, of the 700,000,000 board feet, log scale, used for veneer containers, it is estimated that 250,000,000 feet were used for veneer boxes and an additional 50,000.000 feet for fruit and vegetable packages, which compete directly with the shook box. This total of 300,000,000 board feet, including 3 and 5 ply as well as single-ply veneer containers, is equivalent toabout 1,500,000,000 square feet of box shook, on the assumption that veneer materials average about one-eighth inch in thickness. Forest Service Circular 78, "Wood Used for Packing Boxes in New England," shows a consumption by box manufacturers of 600,493,000 board feet in 1905. The later State wood-using industry studies show that New England consumes 16.53 per cent of all box material. Upon this basis the total consumption of box material in the United States in 1905, including veneer stock as of 1912, was 3,632,747,000 board feet. Great accuracy can not be claimed for this figure. It is believed, however, to be more reliable than the estimates made by the Forest Service in Circular 177. Nor is there an accurate basis for dividing this total between the various types of boxes manufactured. The likelihood is, however, that the consumption for veneer boxes and for veneer packages which competed with shook boxes did not exeed 20,000,000 board feet, log scale, which is equivalent to 100,000,000 square feet. It is estimated that an additional 70,000,000 board feet, log scale, went into veneer packages ...