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Fig. 41. Basket Nailing Bench. 



Upon a standard (a), which is a piece of 

 scantling two and one-half feet long, another 

 piece nine inches long (d) is mortised and bolt- 

 ed. An iron plate (c), one-quarter inch thick. 

 screwed upon (d), serves a good purpose in 

 clinching nails. The seat (d) is two and three- 

 quarter feet long, and made of two-inch plank, 

 a foot wide. This is mortised and bolted to {a), 

 and has two legs at the back end, which are 

 iS}4 inches long. The holes through which 



they are inserted into the plank seat from below, should be bored nearly but not 

 quite through. Upon the plank seat, next to the standard, is a little tin box 

 made of an old oyster can, for receiving nails. 



In the same journal, we noticed some years ago a cut of a berry packing 

 shed, slightly differing from the one given by us on page 150, volume XII. This 

 one is rendered portable by two runners, so that it may be easily removed from 

 one patch to another. It should be made of seven-eights inch planed lumber 

 and painted externally. The engraving (Fig. 42) will sufificiently explain its con- 

 struction. 



Fk;. 42. — Berry Packing Shbd. 



For currants, cherries, early apples, early pears, peaches and plums, no 

 package is so popular in Ontario as the 12 quart handle basket. It has been 

 growing in favor for years, and has now wholly displaced the American round 

 peck and half-bushel baskets, kinds which, it is true, had the advantage of 

 easy nesting for return to the shipper, but since these can be purchased at 

 three or four dollars a hundred, their safe return is not a matter of so very 

 great importance. 



