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HOW TO PACK FRUIT.Packing fruits of vaiious kinds is

at this time of the year prominentlybefore the growers. It was not always

so. Fifty years ago such a thing washardly known. We who have passedthe meridian of life remember that

in our boyhood days nearly all kindsof fruit were sold by being measuredin the half bushel or in other kinds

of measures. Then came the peiiodof weighing but that never prevailedvery extensively in the case of fruits.The reason for this no doubt was thedifficulty growing out of the diversityin weight compared with the articlesmeasured. It was found, for instance,

that a bushel of apples as then meas-ured would weigh from 31) to 5J3

pounds. Should the rule prevailmaking 50 pounds a bushel of applesour boxes would have to be differentfor almost every variety in order to

have au exact bushel by weight.

While some inexperienced theorizerhas suggested that a box of applesshould have a definite weight it wassoon found that the suggestion wasutterly impracticable.

The only thing in which apples werepacked a half century ago was the

barrel. It was a misnomer to call it

packing for the custom was to packone layer at the bottom and then

just pour in the apples and pack onelayer at the top. There might besome uniformity in the two layersnext to the heads but such wasnot the case in the middle of the bar-rel. In this part of the barrel allsizs colors and conditions were pouredin. This led to many abuses fromwhich the business has not fully re-covered yet. It is reported that somedishonest growers or dealeis were ac-customed to put a nice layer of applesat the bottom and then stand a stovepipe in the center and pour the fairlygood apples around it and then fillup the stove pipe with the refuseapple. After the barrel was almost

tilled the stove pipe was drawn out,thus leaving the worst apples in the

center. This custom gave rise to theexpression of "stove-piping" applesand potatoes. Growers were severelycensured for this "stove-piping" butnot always for cases have been knownwhere dealers would buy their applesin bulk and then pack them in thisdishonest manner.

The real packing of apples, peaches,pears and plums including prunes, hasgrown up on the Pacific coast. Someof our leading farm papers publishedin the east have repeatedly called

the attention to the tine packing doneon the Pacific cost. Notably among

these papers is the Kural-New York-er, probably the ablest farm paper

iv the United States. Our apples sellbetter in the eastern markets thanthe home grown product and much of

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this superiority is ascribed to our ex-celleut pack. Our pack is not somuch better than what prevails in the

east because the growers here aremore honest but the necessity of good

packing has been forced upon us.We must pack our fruit better than

the old style when stove piping pie-vailed or we cannot nnd a marketthat will pay our transporting ex-penses and give us a profit. It is

true that some of our western growers

have not learned this lesson and theyare meeting with disaster. 1 couldgive illustrations that have comeunder my own observation in whichgrowers have raised a howl against the

fruit dealers on Western avenue, Se-attle, because they failed to get asgood prices as other have. The faultwas not with the dealers but with thegrowers in the slovenly manner in

which they bave put up their fruit. 1

have seen apples put up in dirty box-

es, all sizes mixed together, no careused in lining the boxes or in wrap-

ing the fruit, sell for one-half the

price secured for well packed apples

and the wonder with me was not thelow price they brought but rather that

they brought as much as they did.Allthese tilings are getting better forthe people are learning that it pays

to do things right.Our prunes, pears and apples go

more or less to the Atlantic coastcities Very few of our peaches go

beyond Chicago and some years theydo not go that far. The time may

come, when we can have our peaches

rushed through on fast trains, that

some of our magnificent Elbertas may

go to New York. If the time evercomes that we can get our peachesthrough to New York in six or sevendays, we will astonish some of thepeople there when they buy some of

our 48 Elbertas and Late Crawfords.Peaches are more easily packed thanany of our other fruits. First they

must be sorted and then be wrappedand placed in the box two layers deep.

When the peaches are big enough topack four across the box and sixlengthwise there will be just 48

peaches in the box. Peach boxesditfer iv depth but not in width orlength. So we can pack all sizes twolayers deep by using the different siz-

ed boxes. It takes but little skill to

wrap and put the peaches in the box

after they are sorted. They mustalways be tight in tne box. If peachesmove in the box when handled theywill not sell for the best price.

When it comes to packing prunes,pears and apples then trouble begins

witt the inexperienced. The chief

trouble in packing pears is in putting"50 pounds in 40 pound box. " Thetrade demands that a pear box notonly be tilled but bulged to its utmost

capacity. The pear box is considera-bly smaller than the apple box but the

rule in most packing houses is to

make the ailed pear box weigh about

52 pounds. 1 tbink I need not. further

describe the packing of prunes andpears.

When it comes to packing apples

certain things must be strictly at-

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