178 Slississijypi Valley Horticultural Society. 



In packing any article for shipment, whenever you come to a 

 specimen about which you have any doubt, give the pig pen or 

 evaporator the benefit of that doubt, as it will pay you much better 

 there than in the box. 



A good rule to be governed by in packing fruit is, never to put 

 an article into the box that you would not place upon your own ta- 

 ble, and the buyers will soon become acquainted with your brand, 

 and your goods will always be the first to sell, and will generally 

 bring you good prices. 



P^vaporators are now furnished at prices that place them within 

 the reach of almost every one, and are about the best friends the 

 fruit raisers have found, because they enable them to utilize a large 

 portion of their crop that would otherwise either be wasted or 

 placed in the center of the box, to depreciate its value and cause the 

 purchaser to make remarks that would grate harshly upon the ear 

 of the packer should he happen to be present when it was opened, 

 and to avoid that brand when making future purchases. 



Honesty, in packing fruit, is the best policy, and the man who- 

 furnishes honest goods and gives sixteen ounces for a pound, four 

 pecks for a bushel, and four quarts for a gallon, is the one wha 

 makes the most substantial friends, and achieves the greatest suc- 

 cess in business. 



Mr. Williams, of Indiana — There is no doubt that the interests 

 of the commission men and growers are identical. The commission 

 man that understands his business certainly has the interest of the 

 grower at heart. I indorse what has been said here in regard to 

 the manner of putting up fruit. The reputation of some commis- 

 sion men has, perhaps, brought aliout this feeling. The idea that a 

 man can go into the commission business without capital has often 

 caused better houses to suffer very materially. It is not a very hard 

 matter for the person shipping to find out the honesty of those to 

 whom he is shipping. He ought to satisfy himself on that point; 

 it is a thing he can do very easily. The commission men are not 

 all the most dishonest men in the world, by any means. You take 

 off the top berries of the boxes of some growers, and you have a lot 

 of little, green, insignificant berries that are not fit for the chickens 

 to eat. I will grant you that there is a great deal of this snide 

 fruit that comes through middle hands; men who buy your good 



