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length that serves to make the bottom of the rabbet one 

 inch wide. 



"The heads are one inch further apart at the top than 

 at the bottom. 



"The sides and bottoms are the ordinary sawed pine, 

 1-4 inch thick by 6 inches wide and 26 5-8 inches long ; 

 these are better than veneer, being stiffer, which prevents 

 pinching of the fruit; the sides are nailed 1 inch up from 

 the bottoms, leaving free circulation of air ; the ends stand 

 3 inches above the sides. 



"These boxes hold about two-thirds of a standard 



Fig. 85. Field box for handling fruit. 



box of packed fruit, and can be piled, one above another, 

 as high as a person can reach without danger of crush 

 ing the fruit. The rabbets hold them from slipping, when 

 tiered up in hauling, and as there is free ventilation and 

 no heavy mass of fruit in any one box, they can be stacked 

 up in the packing house and left until the fruit is needed, 

 with as little danger of injury as though they were in 

 slatted bins/*' 



Picking Bags or Baskets. The most common form of 

 receptacle for holding the fruit in picking is a canvas or 

 duck bag, slung across the shoulder with the mouth open- 

 ing on the left hand side. The objection to any form of 



