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trade. This box, shown in Fig. 28, is solidly built of 

 wood in sizes computed to fit the apples. Each case 

 holds from one hundred and ninety-six to two hundred 

 and twenty-four apples, according to size of the 

 fruit. Inside the box pasteboard partitions are used, 

 precisely like those commonly found in egg cases, 

 except, of course, that the pasteboard compartments 

 are larger. These cases cost about forty cents each in 



FIG. 29 — MR. WOOLVERTON'S APPLE BOX 



quantity, and weigh sixty to seventy-five pounds 

 each when filled. Mr. Shepherd uses these exclu- 

 sively for his fancy export trade, and ships in them 

 only the best fruit of a few special varieties, chiefly 

 Fameuse, Mcintosh, and St. I/awrence, and these only 

 on order. 



Another apple box, used by Mr. 1,. Woolverton, 

 of Grimsby, Ontario, is shown in Fig. 29. This box 

 holds a bushel, and will carry one hundred and twenty- 

 eight apples of approximately two and one-half inches 

 diameter. Each specimen is wrapped in paper. Mr. 



