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FIG. 30 — RACK AND KNIVES USED IN NEW ENGLAND 



changes of temperature, and it does not break or ravel 

 when folded or knotted. 



Rubber bands. — The use of rubber bands for fasten- 

 ing asparagus bunches has recently been found to have 

 some advantages not possessed by other materials. 

 Prof. W. J. Green, of the Ohio Experiment Station, 

 writes in Bulletin No. 9 : " The work can be done 

 more rapidly and better. The saving in time is fully 

 one-third, which will pay for the increased cost of 

 rubber over string, reckoning wages at seventy-five 



