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between the orchard and the paekiiig-house, spring carts rather tlian drays 

 should be used, else the fr-uit may be shaken about and bruised. 



Damaged or bruised fruit is always the first to decay, and when once a 

 specimen hecomes rotten in a box, there is always a ^reat I'isk of many more 

 fruits surrounding it going bad also. 



(2) Graditiy. — It is most important that all fruit should be graded eveidy 

 for size, colour, and quality. For instance, a "ii-inch fruit should not be 

 packed in the same box as fruit 2| to 3 inches in diameter. Again, bright 

 and dull fruits, although of the same size, should not be packed in the same 

 case. In the case of oranges, a soft or rather thick and loose-skinned or 



Small Grader and Orange Press. 



puffy specimen should never be packefl with a firm orange, as one spoils tlie 

 appearance of the other. .Scarred or thorn-pricked citrus fruits should 

 never be exported, as the cost of sending poor, or badly graded and selected 

 fruit is just as great as that of well-selected, sound, good fruit : and while 

 the chances are that the former fruit may make a loss for you out of the 

 shipment, the good fruit is your only hope of success. 



Packing. — See that only one grade is put in any one casp, that is, the 

 fruit should all be of the same size, quality, colour, and should be neatly 

 wrapped. Proper wrappers can be purchased by the thousand for the various 

 sized fruits, and a i'-inch fruit shou'd not be wrapped in a paper large 

 enough to accommodate a 3-inch fiuit, nor shoukl a 3-inc'i fruit have a 



