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Show S6. 500,000 in Bean Money. More monev Is spent each year in Bos- ton In buying baited beans than would buy the largest battleship In tho I'nlud Statu navy In 1904 the gross receipts of beans In Boston wore more thun i.u00 barrels In etch barrel are five bushels The average nrlcfl at which these were sold by tho j wholesale was Ji.K R bushel and w . en these beans were sold aguln by reUllera I to their customers thy brought an aver aKC of 12 cents a pound, or a grund total ThVre are other places where beans ure I lau th- v are not Boston be n,.,, and cm never be.'unUs the man who supor-UMends supor-UMends their baking happen to hftvt served an apprenticeship In some of tho Boston lakertea. . So tremendous has I h. demand for baked beans hecomc In Boston that two comDan e" have been formed whose rffita to bak- bean, for .vatauranl. and lulck-lun.h e.tabllshmtnts. One- of the eonM anil s uses an average ,.f M -lua.ts a ,'..k ar..i the othei WM yet the beans thaY these . ompanle-s bake an but a drop In the buekct coropareVl with the con- qgttsXk n.arkabl. consumption of beams Is that h.. emand Is bUadily Inci va.-lng. and ihat Sow mors barrels of bean were s i ... Boston in 1WM 'lean ... 19-0 Tlu-.v we seasons m srhloh tha demon d fo r lh a stunh- i g" ' olr"-"'- ""'l,' U1C -feartsaAie nSis wfss ! 1 MXViSSTo |