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ally of paper. The paper box may become popular in 

 the future, but it seems hardly probable. 



The quart boxes are always shipped in crates, each 

 crate holding twelve, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-six. 



FIG. 20 — SQUARE BERRY BASKET AND CRATE 



FIG. 21 — BERRY CRATE — COMMON FORM 



or forty-eight quart boxes. Larger sizes seem to be 

 comparatively more popular southward, especially in 

 the Baltimore market, while comparatively smaller 

 sizes are preferred northward. The thirty-two quart 

 crate is probably most common, and the sixteen, 

 twenty-four, and thirty-two quart crates are vastly in 



