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Processing Small Tree Orders

In a forest nursery designed for volume production of seedlings, the small parcel post order often presents a problem in processing. To relieve this situation, the Webster Forest Nursery has adopted the following procedure using Tufflex fabric C-33 as a moist packing medium, and polyethylene-lined kraft bags of various sizes as wrappers. Tufflex fabric C-33, a product of Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Minn., weighs 33 pounds per thousand square feet and is composed of sulfite fiber, colored cotton thread waste, and a resin binder. The shipping bag is a multiwalled bag of 50# weight kraft paper and has a 10# weight lining of polyethylene on the inner wall. We use an assortment of these bags ranging in size from a 6- by 28-inch tube type to a 12-by 24- by 30-inch open mouth type.


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Author(s): Homer S. Ward

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 54 (1962)