MARKETING THE CROP 



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The actual work of sorting requires considerable 

 skill and experience. Women and girls have been 

 found especially useful at this task. Some men make 

 good fruit packers ; others are useless. 



Mechanical graders and sorters have been put 

 upon the market from time to time and have been 

 carefully tested, but so far as the writer knows no 

 machine of any sort has ever proved satisfactory. 



PACKAGES 



One of the most important problems in handling 

 the peach crop is the selection of proper packages. 

 Those most commonly used are the quart berry 

 basket, the four-quart till basket, the two-and-a- 

 half-quart bale bas- 

 ket, the climax bas- 

 ket of various sizes, 

 the Georgia carrier, 

 the Jersey basket 

 and the bushel bas- 

 ket. 



The quart basket 

 precisely as made 

 up for handling 

 strawberries, is 

 sometimes used in 

 selling peaches, 

 especially in the 

 retail market. It is 

 not a good pack- 

 age, however, and 



should never be recommended. It Is used only for 

 second grade peaches, which properly ought to be sold 

 in larger quantities. Where really good peaches are to 

 be sold on fruit stands at retail they should be sold by 



THE JERSEY BASKET 



