teeth 34 may consist of those which are now used in the traditional methods of manufacturing matches thus this treatment may include the following steps immersing the sheet or the chopped sticks into a phosphate bath to prevent pulverization of the ashes immersing them into paraffin to permit a regular progression of the flame drying the immersed sheet or sticks etc finally from a publicity point of view it is possible to provide holes 41 in the oblong compartments 12 e g through the wall 9 of the core 2 so that a certain noise through these holes is produced when an air flow is applied from the opposite open end of these compartments and so that the empty package may be used as a mouth organ if desired preferably this is only used in packages where the striking strip 18 is at the outside of the compartment 12 and where it may be removed in a simple way if desired if all matches have been used this striking strip may preferably cover said holes as shown in the specification the method of manufacturing matches and the step of inserting them into the invented package may be effected in a continuous way moreover any waste of wood is restricted to a strict minimum of course the invention is not limited to the embodiments described above of the method and apparatus for separately conditioning matches and many variants may be considered within the framework of the invention e g with relation to the different devices used moreover the shape of the cores may be subject to many modifications thus inter alia the recess 14 might be rectangular and might be restricted to the space 10 for the head of the match thus creating a longer.