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scored or cut at the dotted lines, and being readily turned 

 up, are buckled into the two sets of slots shown on the 

 left-hand edge of figure 114. When thus buckled to- 

 gether, the two 

 pieces form a 

 perfect box, as 

 seen in figure 

 113, neither 

 nails nor glue 

 being required, 



Fig. 115. BOTTOM OF BOX. an d the Whole 



constituting a strong and beautiful box. The "bottom 

 cannot fall out, as it is firmly held in its place by the 

 spring of the wood. The prominent advantages secured 

 by the use of this box are as follows : 



1. The great desideratum of a box always nice and 

 cleanly is, for the first time, secured. 



2. The commission agent being relieved from the great 

 annoyance of hunting up and returning crates and boxes, 

 as well as escaping the loss of them, will sell the fruit i'or 

 much less than the usual commission. 



3. The return freight of empty boxes is saved, and this, 

 added to the saving in commission, will more than pay 

 for the cost of crates and boxes. 



4. Another saving is secured in sending to market, as 

 one hundred of the Free boxes, quart measures, weigh 

 only nine and one-third pounds, while one hundred of the 

 old square quarts weigh fifty pounds. As fruit in crates 

 goes to market by weight, the new box saves eighty per 

 cent of the weight. Any one can readily satisfy himself 

 by a calculation of what is thus saved in freight to market, 

 commission, and return of empty crate, that he will really 

 save money by using a box that he can give away. It will 

 be found cheaper to use a box only once than to continue 

 using it many times. 



5. As these boxes are put together without nails or 



