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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 theip, will sell the fruit for much less 

 than the usual commission. 



3. The return freight of empty boxes is saved. 



•i. Another saving is secured in sending to market, as one 

 hundred of the free boxes, quart measure, weigh only about 

 twelve pounds, while one hundred of the old square quarts 

 weigh fifty pounds. Any one can readily satisfy himself by a 

 calculation of what is thus saved in freight to market, commis- 

 sion, and return of empty crate, that he will really save money 

 by using a box that he can give away. 



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 during the winter. The flats are 

 scored und bent, ready for folding up, and as the wood bends at 

 tile 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 a 

 trifling cost of freight. 



The prices for these boxes are : — 



Pints made up per 1000 $8.00 



" " 5000 37.50 



in flats per 1000 6.50 



" " 5000 30.00 



Quarts made up per 1000 9.00 



" " .5000 42.50 



ill flats " 1000 7.50 



•' " 5000 35.00 



Other fruit baskets are : " The American, by the American 

 Basket Company, New Britain, Connecticut, a very nice basket, 

 costing thirty dollars for one thousand quarts. The Hallock fruit 

 V>ox, manufactured by N. Hallock, Queens, Queens County, New 



