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scale, and has sold many thousands at very low prices ; and 

 his boxes are very light and nice. One of my neighbors 

 thought one man could make boxes as cheap and good as 

 another, and had some made here in town, where, of course, 



OUR BUSHEL BOX. 



they did not make a business of doing such work. Another 

 sent to Mr. Boot, as I advised, and got his boxes much 

 cheaper, after] paying freight, and they are ever so much 

 lighter and neater. Take my advice : You had far better 

 send to Mr. U. for boxes in the flat than to try to make them 

 yourself, or get them made where the manufacturer has not 

 had large experience, and hasn't the knowledge of just what 

 is wanted. If you don't take my advice, after you have 

 lifted three or four pounds of unnecessary weight a few 

 thousand times you may come across some of Mr. Ttoot's 

 boxes, and see where you have missed it. 



Now, when digging for early market my men just laid the 

 tubers in these boxes as they would eggs (no throwing in) ; 

 and as fast as one was filled a cover was put on. These 

 covers are simply pieces of inch-thick board, cut about 15 by 

 18 inches. Potatoes that were dug one day I took to market 

 the next morning, on a spring wagon, of course, with a can- 

 vas cover over them to protect from the sun as well as rain. 

 They were set off at the grocer's, and then put by him into 

 his delivery-wagon and taken to his customers. They thus 

 reached the consumer just about as nice and fresh as 

 though he dug them out of his own garden. This was quite 

 a new departure, and boomed our business greatly for a 



