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added to the saving in commission, will more than pay 

 for cost of crates and boxes. 



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

 100 of the Free boxes, quart measures, weigh only 9^- 

 pounds, while ICO of the old square quarts weigh 50 

 pounds. As fruit in crates goes to market by weight, the 

 new box saves 80 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 

 glue, they can be sent to 



distant growers, in the shape 



of flats, to be made up by 



children at odd times dur- 

 ing the winter. . The flats 



are scored, ready for fold- 

 ing up, and as the wood. 



bends at the joint without 



breaking, a small girl will 



learn in five minutes how 



to put them together. 



Many hundred boxes thus 



packed as flats, can be got into a very small compass, and 



at trifling cost of freight." Present prices : 



Quart boxes, made up, $10.50 per 1,000 



Pint boxes, made up, - 10.00 per 1,000 



Quart boxes, in flats, , 10.00 per 1,000 



Pint boxes, in flats, 7.50 per 1,000 



Square Cliip Baslcet. 



Figure 110. Here we have an improvement on the com- 

 mon Jersey basket. The slats are reversed, the wide 

 ones passing around the basket, and the small ones form- 



Fig. 110. SQUARE CHIP BASKET. 



