PREPARATIO^n" roR gatheeixg feuit. 



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there being a thin band within Vn:c*h holds both ends to- 

 gether. This box would answer better for Currants and 

 Gooseberries^ than for Saspberries and similar fruit, as it 



Fig. 121. — GUERNSEY EOX. 



Fig. 122.— JOECNSTOx's case. 



is not ventilated ; but ventilation might be given by 

 boring holes through one end. 



•foSinstoia's I*remium Fruit Case 



Is made up of four trays seventeen inches wide, twenty- 

 three inches long, and three inches deep, holding a little 

 over one half bushel ; side pieces, 1, in figure 122, half 

 inch thick, three inches wide, twenty-three inches long ; 

 ends, 2, three-eighths of an inch thick, three inches 

 wide, and nineteen and a half inches long ; bottoms of 

 three upper trays haK inch thick; standards, 5, two 

 inches by three-quarters by fifteen ; cover cleats, 6, two 

 inches by three-quarters by eighteen ; tops, 4, twenty- 

 four inches by six by three-eighths ; handles, 2, twenty- 

 three inches by two by five-eighths ; bot- 

 toms of case twentyrfour inches by six by 

 half ; the bottom tray is made of heavier 

 stuff, sides, 4, in figure 123, five-eighths of 

 an inch thick, end one and a half mch thick 

 and sides are let into the ends, as seen in 

 1 ; this tends to strengthen the standard, 2, 

 which is firmlv nailed to both side and 



Fig. 123. 



end pieces. 



The trays are separated by slats three-eighths of an 



