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The injury to our fruit has been a severe one in many parts of the 

 State, but because of this we shall have to work the harder to make a 

 complete collection of all our fruits as they ripen. A little work by 

 each person, where anything can be found that will pass muster, will 

 make the united effort of all result in a grand and noble display. 



DIRECOriONS. 



Strawberries. — Pick with stem on and wrap in tissue or paraffine 

 paper. Select good clusters and pack in the berry boxes in cotton after 

 wrapping. 



Raspberries, Blackberries and Deziberries. — Wrap each berry or clus- 

 ter and pack as above. 



Gooseberries and Currants. — Pick with stems and wrap also. Clus- 

 ters of each of them make a nice showing in the jars. Pack everything 

 so it will not shake in the package. 



Grapes, Cherries and Plums. — All need their stems, and each bunch, 

 cluster or specimen needs care in wrapping, packing and shipping, as 

 above. 



Apples and Pears. — Need to be gathered with stems on the fruit. 

 Fruit should be firm but ripe, well colored and large. Wrap each fruit 

 in tissue paper and then in paraffine, and pack tightly in boxes or barrels, 

 filling up spaces with plenty of old paper, so they will not move. When 

 ready to send apples, pears, peaches, plums and quinces, ask for ship- 

 ping tags and wrapping paper, if you want them, but do not wait for 

 them^ — use old newspapers if you can do no better. 



Be sure to put your name and the variety on each package. 



L, A, Goodman, 

 Supt, of Missouri Horticulture, 



7th and Wyandotte, Kansas City, Mo. 



THIRD CIRCULAR SENT OUT IN AUGUST, I903, 



Some Rules for the Gathering and Packing of Apples for Cold Storage 

 for the Missouri Exhibit at the World's Fair. 



PACKING. 



The ripeness of the fruit is the very first and the most important 

 matter for us to consider when we are gathering fruit of any kind for eith- 

 er processing in glass this year or sending in fresh to go on the tables next 

 year or for cold storage. The fact is that fruit must be in the ripening 

 stage, that is, just ripe, not fully ripe ; just colored or coloring, not fully 



