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34 a ream of insides is usually 10 per cent. above the price for a mill ream.

Machine-made paper is good, retree, and outsides, the prices being 10 and 20 per cent. less for the second and third qualities respectively. Paper is usually supplied in inside reams of 480 sheets, that is, all good paper, but the papermaker may supply mill reams of 480 sheets, but with a quire of outsides at the top and bottom. The ream of 480 sheets is also known as the stationer's ream—writing, drawing, cartridge, and fancy papers being packed in that quantity. Paper classed as news is packed in 500's, envelope papers in 504's, and many printing papers in perfect or printer's reams of 516 sheets.

The variety of reams suggests that it might be well to move for a standard ream of 500 sheets. The present system makes for confusion in giving out paper, keeping stock, estimating and pricing out, and a simplification should be welcomed.