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get their stuff sawed at the mill and take it home and work it 

 all up by hand, costs them about eighteen or twenty cents to make 

 a barrel ; and you can buy them there at the shop for twenty to 

 twenty-five cents — delivered thirty miles, as in my case, costs 

 thirty cents. I don't believe that the box will ever come into 

 general use as a package for shipping apples. They have been 

 using the box for quite a number of years. It is not a very new 

 thing. It has been used for shipping apples quite a good while. 

 They usually use the bushel box and when they do that they 

 wrap tneir apples in tissue paper and put them in layers, and a 

 cardboard between each layer, and a bushel box according to the 

 size of the apple will hold three to five layers. If you have a 

 thousand barrels of apples and want to get them onto the market, 

 and get a telegram from your agent to hustle, it would give any- 

 body fits to hustle a thousand barrels into those boxes, with tissue 

 paper and cardboard, and get them onto the cars. Of course 

 it will do for a few fancy apples, but I don't believe it will ever 

 be done for a commercial way, by the thousand barrels. 



Some like the barrel because they can roll it on the floor, plat- 

 form and dock, and others like the box because they can't roll 

 it ; so you see men are not all alike. And I may be entirely mis- 

 taken about this box business. The box is no cheaper, no easier 

 to get than the barrel. A box maker wanted me to try boxes. 

 "Yes, I wni try boxes, try anything — make me some, a couple 

 of hundred." Well, he wasn't ready. "What is the price of 

 them?" I found I couldn't get enough for my apples any 

 cheaper than I could get the barrels. 



There is a very good box made — to digress a little — that is a 

 fine thing on a farm, to hold a bushel. You take two pieces of 

 board 11x12 and nail slats on three sides, leaving one for an 

 opening, — one-half inch slats from one end to the other. Of 

 course I am describing the ordinary crate box. But they can 

 be made for five cents — this half-inch stuff — of course it isn't 

 close together, and a person nailing those slats onto these end 

 pieces of inch stuff can make a box very rapidly. The ends are 

 11X12 and inside measure is 2234 inches, which will hold a 

 bushel. When you are packing potatoes it is much easier to take 

 up potatoes in these boxes and put them onto the load and pile 



