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Automatic Carton Machines.

These machines automatically make the Postum paper cartons, or boxes, each machine forming 1,200 cartons per hour. The finished carton leaves the machine and passes down a conveyor to the floor below, where it drops on a traveling belt that carries it to an automatic filling machine, which weighs and fills each package; this same belt then conveys the package to another automatic sealing machine, which seals the top of the paper carton.

have been prevented by stopping the supply of starch which, being only partly digested, daily decays in the intestines, producing gas, irritation and diseased conditions. Many persons linger half ill, because they do not know that the food causes it, when the conditions show that the intestinal digestion is weak. Such patients need food that can be digested without drugs, and that food is Grape-Nuts.

Postum Packing Room.

In the farther end of this room are the automatic sealing and filling machines, similar to.those shown in the Grape-Nuts packing room, page 21. The man at the right is working the automatic nailing machine, which at two strokes drives all the nails in the lid of the wooden shipping box.

The interior of each room is painted white and kept immaculately clean.

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