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ing of the car. Of course part of the trouble, too, can often be traced to poor trans- 

 portation facilities cars being from one to several days too long on the journey out. 

 Apart from the markets briefly touched on in the foregoing remarks, the 

 jam factories are taking increasingly large quantities of currants and gooseberries 

 each year, at fairly renninerative prices. The English gooseberries are favored 

 by the factories on account of their larger size. 



Packages. 



Currants and gooseberries are usually sold in the eleven quart basket, and 

 for local markets such a package will suit. For long distance shipment, however, 

 currants should be put in packages where there will not be such a great bulk of 



Fig. 7. — ^Crate commonly used in British Columbia for shipping plums and 

 prunes. Used also for shipping currants and gooseberries. Dimensions 

 15% X 15% X 41/4, to hold four Veneer Tin Top baskets as shown. 



fruit together as in the eleven cpiart basket. If packed in the twenty-four box 

 crate, they will carry much better and arrive in a much more satisfactory condition. 

 Gooseberries may be shipped to the west satisfactorily in the eleven-quart basket. 

 Two types' of fruit packages coininonly used in British Columbia for shipping 

 currants aiut gooseberries are shown in the accompanying illustrations. 



In this regard it might be well to note what Jas. E. Parnall has to say in 

 reference to packages in the paragraph quoted above. He states that Ontario 

 fruit was better quality than the American fruit, but this was equalized by the 

 inferior appearance of the Ontario packages. It Avould appear from this that 

 Ontario growers are actually losing money through ship])ing Iheir currants and 

 gooseberries in the present packages. Appearance of package counts for a great 



