. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Steel Box Strapping. Used in connection with metal seals consists of encircling a package with a metal strap, draw- ing the strap very tight and interlocking the overlapping strap - ends within a metal sleeve (SIGNODE) in such a manner that the joint has a greater tensilestrength than the strap itself. Nails, rivets and buck- les, with their attendant objections, are entirely eliminated. Write for Catalog Acme Strapping packed in bbls. of about 500 lbs. or larger pkgs. Metal Seals packed in cartons containing 2,000-2,500 seals. ACME STEEL GOODS CO. MFRS. Factory:
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Steel Box Strapping. Used in connection with metal seals consists of encircling a package with a metal strap, draw- ing the strap very tight and interlocking the overlapping strap - ends within a metal sleeve (SIGNODE) in such a manner that the joint has a greater tensilestrength than the strap itself. Nails, rivets and buck- les, with their attendant objections, are entirely eliminated. Write for Catalog Acme Strapping packed in bbls. of about 500 lbs. or larger pkgs. Metal Seals packed in cartons containing 2,000-2,500 seals. ACME STEEL GOODS CO. MFRS. Factory: 2840 Archer Ave., Chicago 311 California St., San Francisco due to cold storage making a greater supply available for these months or il may be due lo increased competition with other fruits. In Table II. all varieties are aver- aged together. This is hardly an ap- proved statistical method, since Bald- win should be weighted more heavily in such a table than a less common variety, like Spitzenburg, but since no figures as to amounts of sales were available, all were averaged in alike. TABLE II.—ALL VARIETIES, BY MONTHS. 1834-46 1893-1913 August $ September October November :: December January February March 2.:>8 April May :;.7l June Both tables indicate a slight increase in the price of apples. Measured in terms of other commodities, however, the rise is slight indeed. On the other hand, considering the vastly increased production and use of other fruits, the apple shows a surprising ability to hold its own. Apples and lemons seem to be the only fruits to show any well-marked advance in price in sev- enty or eighty years; the lemon alone shows a sharp advance. The conclusion seems inevitable then, that fruits are cheaper, relatively and actually, than when our great- grandparents went shopping. To that extent the consumer is better off now than he was in the "good old
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