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potatoes or bags of seed in the seed house or warehouse 

 also should be heavy. The most approved platform 

 truck, the kind that market men use, is made with a 

 frame four feet in length by two feet in width. The 

 frame is made of good solid hardwood put together 



Figure 227. Concrete Post Supporting a Waterproof Clothes Line 

 Reel Box. 



with mortise and tenon. The cross pieces or stiles 

 are three-quarters of an inch lower than the side pieces 

 or rails, which space is filled with hardwood flooring 

 boards firmly bolted to the cross pieces so they come up 

 flush with the side timbers. The top of the platform 

 should be sixteen inches up from the floor. There are 



