Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1914 — GOOD TIME FOR MAKING CRATES [ARTICLE]

GOOD TIME FOR MAKING CRATES

Convenient Receptacles for Fruit and Other Farm Products are Easily Made.

(By S. B. HARTMAN.)

Winter days make a good time to nail up crates, whether for fruit or farm use. Where elm or other good crate timber is plenty and a mill to Cut it into crate material handy the timber can be got out at trifling cost and nailed up when other work is not pressing. I know of one man who put in his spare time making crates of common lath and (2x4) hardwood. The latter was cut into triangular pieces with a rip saw for corners and the lath nailed to them quite closely together. This makes a light but not very durable crate. Store box material, especially orange or lemon boxes, cap be used for crates. By cutting handholes in the ends of the orange boxes and nailing the slates more firmly, they will make fairly good crates just as they are; or the slats may be knocked off, the middle partion taken out and the slats sawed to proper length and renailed to ends, making a fairly good crate. If zinc 01 tin strips be nailed over the ends of Slats to prevent nails drawing out, a good light crate will he made at a trifling cost