PKEPAKATIO^' rOPw GATHEEIJS'G FKUIT. 



scored or cut at the dotted lines, and being readily turned 

 up, are buckled into the two sets of slots sho^ on the 

 left-hand edge cf figure 114:. T\'hen thus buckled to- 



constituting a strong and beautiful box. The bottom 

 cannot fall out. a? it is firmly held in its place by the 

 spring of the wood. The prominent advantages secured 

 by the use of this box are as follows : 



1. The great desideratum of a box always nice and 

 cleanly is, for the first time, secured. 



2. The commission agent being relieved from tlie great 

 annoyance of hunting up and returning crates and boxes, 

 as well as escaj^iug the loss of them, will sell the fruit for 

 much less than the usual commissiOD. 



3. The return freight of empty boxes is saved, and this, 

 added to the saving in commission, will more than pay 

 for the cost of crates and boxes. 



4. Another saving is secured m sending to market, as 

 one hundred of the Free boxes, quart measures, weigh 

 only nine and one-third pounds, while one hundred of the 

 old square quarts weigh fifty pounds. As fruit in crates 

 goes to market by weight, the new box saves eiglitv per 

 cent of the weight. Any one can readily satisfy himself 

 by a calculation of what is thus saved in freight to market, 

 commission, and return of empty crate, that lie will really 

 save money by using a box that he can give away. It will 

 be found cheaper to use a box only once than to continue 

 using it many times. 



5. As these boxes are put together without nails or 



Fi^. 115.— BOTTOM or eox. 



getlier, the two 

 pieces form a 

 perfect box, as 

 seen in figure 

 113, neither 

 nails nor glue 

 being required, 

 and the whole 



