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cost $20 a thousand, including the crates, which were 

 mostly the forty-eight-quart size. These boxes were 

 square and were made of two pieces of white-wood, one- 

 fourth to three-eighths inch thick. The use of Hallock's 

 boxes became so general that in some sections all straw- 

 berry boxes were called "Hallocks" — and are to this 

 day. 



Hallocks were made in various sizes and were very 

 heavy. Frequently they were packed in heavy, home- 

 made crates. Jeremiah Haggerty has described the pack- 

 age used in Oswego County, New York, about 1855 : ^ 

 "The crates were of several sizes and shapes, mostly of 

 domestic manufacture. The lumber in them was from 

 one to one and a quarter inches in thickness. They were 

 made like tool chests, with handles nailed along the sides 

 and extending at the end so as to allow two men to handle 

 them conveniently. They contained from 120 to 160 

 quarts. The berry boxes at that time held two quarts 

 and were made of wood one quarter to three-eighths inch 

 in thickness." 



These thick, heavy boxes were soon discarded for lighter 

 ones. In 1869 W. F. Wall of Fayetteville, New York, 

 used " a square quart box with the bottom set up into the 

 box one inch, so that they may set above one another in 

 the crate without jamming the fruit. The material for the 

 box is white wood, one sixteenth of an inch thick; the 

 inside diameter is 5 X 5 X 2J inches; the cost about 

 $15 a thousand. They are shipped in crates holding 24, 

 36 or 48 quarts." ^ The Baker thirty-six quart crate 

 was introduced into western New York by Baker Brothers 

 in 1872. It cost $2.25 at that time. 



1 Rural New Yorker, 1898, p. 68. 



2 Southern Horticulturist, Oct., 1869. 



