Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-07-19
TRADE BAROMETERS.
Forty Million Berry Boxes Made
and Marketed This Year.


Made of Wood Pulp.
Iron Is a good barometer recording high
or low pressure in the American business
world, but It Is not a better barometer
than many other manufactured products.
says the New York correspondent of THE
Philadelphia Press" Recause of the rca-
diness with which statistics OF iron and
steel production can be secured, that pro-
ducton furnishes a speedier and moro
convenient method of determining indus
trial activity, than almost any other pro-
duct does. And yet after all, some of the
little. the inconspicuous products, out
put of which the American public has
little or no knowledge, often tell as ex-
actly the story of industrial activity as
does the iron and steel market.
For instance, this morning manu-
facturcr of so little considered product
that when its service is performed. it
is quite often crushed under the heel.
sent to the rubbish heap or used for
kindling wood, spoke of the output of
this spring as n sure indication of the
common state of prosperity prevailing all
over the United States. This manufac-
turer by an ingenious hut simple ma
chinery makes the little wooden boxes.
the wood of which has hardly more than
the consistency of a pine shaving, in
which berries are carried from the fields
to the market. This year 10000 900 boxes
Of that kind have been made and mar
ketcd. and in these figures it is easy to
discover not merely the activity of the
growers Of small fruits. but also the
ability of the American people to buy
them. If 40,0D,ooO boxes in which to
place berries have been manufactured
and marketed by one mandatory. then
it is easy to see that the American pub
lie has purchased this Spring at Yeas
&. 100000 quarts of small fruits and the
berry raisers have profted thereby.
This same mandatory has recently
discovered an increase in the production
Of larger fruits, as we'll as strong in
dications that we are to have larger
export of these fruits than ever before
For this mandatory has Just completed
an order for 100000 boxes 10 he sent to
California and by and by to Florida,
some to Porto Rico in which oranges are
10 he packed, and an equally great or
der is expected with a few days
ANOTHER LITTLE THING.
A man of true Yankee inventive gift,
who has always all his life, even from
boyhood. seen opportunities for perfecting
various apparatus. usually of small size,
received one day an inspiration for an
apparatus by means of which fresh milk
in healthful packages, uncontaminated
and not possible to contaminate. could be
carried from the diaries to the customers
homes. This little apparatus consisted o!
nothing but circular piece Of pasteboard
fitted accurately to the neck of a glass
Jar and pressed down by n wire spring.
II was 50 simple a thing that this wonder
was that others had not earlier thought
of 1t. He perfected the apparatus at
about the time the wise farmers within a
hundred miles or more Of New York had
worked out a plan by which through COM
mon action they could market their milk
at one center and receive upon the in
slant of delivery tho cash for It. Some
times that association has been called a
trust. and it did seems to have some Of
the characteristics of a monopoly. but Il
brought about great economy for the far
mers, made it possible for them 70 receive
instant cash for their milk and considera-
bly, enlarged the market The inventors
apparatus made q great marketing Of
milk at private houses possible, and while
he has already accumulated good for
tune, he sees through recent evidences
Of increasing prosperity a larger fortune
This little apparatus in its own insight
icant way, through the large demand
that is this Spring made for IT, tells A
story not only Of increa sing population
but of very great increase In the use o,
milk.
THE FORTUNE THAT CAME.
| From the northern part of New Eng
| land and from Canada come to-day re
ports of greatly increased demand fo
a product that is really the result Of wha
| seemed to he misfortune and the direc
result OF accident. Some wears ago
keen-eved and quick minded Yankee o
tho Northeast. who by birth was almost
| Blue Nose" conceived tho idea of utiliz
! ing spruce pulp. pressing II and making
with II a safe and very cheap lamp. Hi
ideas We're all right and he was at'e L
| n \ lSA la oh ba n II,