METALLIC BASKETS 
O uk position in the trade enables us to reach, directly, the people who will be most benefitted by the great 
advantage in the art of manufacture, which has made the metallic basket a product which is driving 
splint baskets out of the market as fast as horses were taken off street cars. We offer metallic baskets as 
a SIDE LINE to those who appreciate these advantages. 
^fld'V ant ages and X/ses^r 
The Corrugating, which is done thoroughly by special machinery, 
makes a stiff, strong article, and at the same time keeps the weight down. 
The Galvanizing prevents rust and keeps the basket always bright 
and clean. 
Water-tight Construction. 
Great Thoroughness of Construction. 
Light Weight, no greater than that of a wooden basket. 
Durability — One of these steel baskets will outlast a dozen wooden 
ones, and is therefore the most economical to buy ; you don’t have to 
keep them out of the water or the hot sun. 
WATER-TIGHT. The farmer finds the basket invaluable for all 
purposes, but because they are water-tight, and can be used for hot and 
wet feed as well as cold and dry produce and can always be kept sweet 
and clean, he is bound to use them. He readily sees that the farm 
doesn’t own so good a pail or a bucket as the half-bushel basket. 
The village or city resident finds in them a basket into which he need not hesitate to turn his hot ashes 
or rubbish, and yet which can be cleaned in five seconds, ready for food or fruit. 
Ninety-five per cent of the people never heard of anything but a wooden basket, and will not believe 
until they see one, that a steel, anti-rusting receptacle, just as light, a dozen times more durable, and available 
for three times as many purposes, can be made to sell for no greater price than a good oak or willow basket 
costs. 
Industrial establishments want a basket to stand hard and constant usage and they find it in this one. 
Here are some of the establishments where they are being used already : 
Factories, Mines, Markets, Hills, Dye Works, Laundries, Hotels, Soap Works, Stables, Bleacheries, 
Refineries, Packing Houses, Tanneries, Canning Shops, Evaporating Works, Coal Yards, Founderies, 
Bakeries. 
Bottoms and sides perforated, if desired, for markets or abattoirs. 
: BX/SHEL -BASKET. 
Trice, £ 1.00 each. 
HALF- B X/SHEE 
BASKET. 
"Price. 75c each. 
Our Half-Bushel BasKjet. 
Its utility is apparent to every person who sees it. It is a better pail or bucket 
than is made anywhere in the country. 
As a basket it is light, convenient to handle, on account of its flat bail, and a 
blow or fall which would crush and destroy the common pail or basket, will not 
leave a mark upon it. The handiest article imaginable about the farm, dairy or 
garden. There is no use to which a half-bushel measure, basket or pail can be put 
for which this article is not perfectly adapted. 
Note the difference in quality between this basket and the ordinary galvanized 
pail. We make the basket to stand rough work, while competition has made it 
necessary for manufacturers to make their pails quickly and out of any light stock. 
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