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will be capable of transporting the same safely to its destination. The 

 six basket peach carrier is about the most suitable package for fancy 

 tomatoes. We have used this package entirely for the early and medium 

 varieties for the past ten years and are well satisfied with its merits. 

 In our experience with peppers we have found the half-bushel and 

 bushel basket to be the best. Peppers as well as tomatoes must be 

 packed in uniform layers from the bottom up to the top of the basket 

 and not dumped in and faced over the top to make an attractive 

 package. 



The old adage, 'That the Package Sells the Fruit," is in a large 

 measure true with vegetables as with various other products. A small 

 neat package of vegetables properly graded and packed is certainly 

 attractive and brings the price. 



Musk melons, sweet corn, cauliflower, and early cabbage are best 

 shipped in a slat crate having solid ends to give it strength. The plac- 

 ing of a sheet of wax paper over each head of cauliflower when packing 

 adds greatly to the attractiveness and quality of the same upon arriving 

 at destination. 



There is always a good market for early radishes, beets, carrots, and 

 onions. These should be carefully washed and tied in small bunches 

 by raphia and packed in crates for shipping. The ready sale for such 

 products depends largely upon the neatness and attractiveness of the 

 package and contents. Peas, beans, kohl-raba, and swiss chard are all 

 popular vegetables and find a ready sale in a particular market. 



The new fruit package law brought about through the persistent 

 eff'orts of prominent members of this society of ours in session here to- 

 day, while it will be of untold benefit to the fruit-growing industry of 

 Michigan, it will also to a certain extent tend to improve the standard 

 of quality of the vegetables placed upon our markets. 



A few dollars spent during the season for attractive labels placed upon 

 crates and individual packages as well is money well invested. In 

 catering to a special market the matter of labels is an absolute neces- 

 sity to the commercial grower. He must have a label of some descrip- 

 tion. Too few growers realize the full value of a neat attractive label 

 with the name of the farm, the grower's name and address, the variety 

 and grade of the article contained, and a guarantee as to the quality 

 of the same. A neat attractive package with the contents properly 

 graded and packed and with some such label as mentioned is absolutely 

 essential to gain a reputation for your products that will be lasting. 

 What does a few dollars spent in such advertising mean to gaining a 

 reputation that will give your products prestige over others on the same 

 market? Your vegetables will sell readily after your trade is once 

 established while the other fellow must take his chances. 



A narrow label with some such wording as ''Fancy Products'' or "Our 

 Best," the name of the farm, the grower's name and address, may be 

 placed across each basket of tomatoes in a carrier at a slight expense, 

 thus adding much to the attractiveness of the package. 



Not only this, but when Mr. Brown sells Mrs, Smith one of these 

 particular baskets of tomatoes and she in turn tells Mrs. Jones, her 

 neighbor, about what fine tomatoes Mr. Brown is selling and will be 

 satisfied with only those with your label, you are not only gaining a 

 better reputation for your products, but a much larger volume of 

 business. 



