POTATO CULTURE. 209 



Descriptive Price List of Bushel Boxes. 



For the benefit of those who are interested in bushel 

 boxes, and wish to know what they cost, and where to get 

 them, we reprint the following from our bushel-box circular : 



When the first edition of the A B C of Potato Culture was 

 published a few years ago, we had calls for these boxes, and 

 accordingly arranged to furnish them ; and, later, there was 

 a demand for cheaper ones ; and as they came into more 

 general use it was discovered that they were equally good 

 for handling onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, etc., and 

 we have sold many of them for handling all these crops. 

 We make one style so low in price that, for many things, it 

 could be used as a gift crate for sending produce to a distant 

 market In the following pages we describe the three styles 

 we keep in stock and are prepared to furnish promptly. If 

 there are other sizes or styles that you find you can use to 

 better advantage we shall be pleased to receive specifica- 

 tions, naming the quantity you can use, and we will make 

 estimates. As these boxes go at fourth-class rate of freight, 

 the charges are reasonable, even to distant points, ranging 

 from 1 to 3 cents per box, depending on the distance. 



You notice the dimensions given by Terry in chapter 14 

 are 13x13x16 inches, inside measure. We make them I inch 

 wider and i inch shallower i. P., 

 121 deep, 13 wide, and 16 inches 

 long, practically the same dimen- 

 sions, but changed just enough so 

 that, when you handle them emp- 

 ty, one box can be placed inside 

 of two others. Thus they occupy 

 only two- thirds the space, and can 

 be handled in bundles of three at 

 a time instead of singly. Some do 

 not consider a box of this size so easy to lift and carry as one 

 made four to six inches longer, and proportionately narrower 

 and shallower; but we consider that the advantages in favor 

 of this size more than overbalance this slight disadvantage, 

 if it may be called one. Two of these, end to end, just fit 

 crosswise of an ordinary wagon-box that is not less than 34 

 inches wide. 



