BEST PRICES FROM HONEST PACKING. 



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as a miscellaneous lot of sizes and shapes are 

 used, growers can never expect to make sales 

 f. o. b. by the box. This is the hope of our busi- 

 ness, for with well defined grades, so that a dis- 

 tant buyer can know just what quality he is 

 buying, and a uniform box and uniformity in 

 style of packing, there is no reason why such 

 sales should not .be made, instead of the present 

 ruinous method of consignment, leaving the dis- 

 tant buyer to put his o^ti price on the fruit 

 when it has, perhaps, crossed the sea. 



A year ago I sold to a first -class house in 

 Paris, France, a lot of my XXX boxed apples, 

 Baldwins and Spys, at $1.72 delivered in Mont- 

 real. I had an enquiry again last year from the 

 &ame house, but the excessive foreign crop pre- 

 vented the deal. However, this points out the 

 proper method of sale, and every means to that 

 end should be encouraged. 



I am inclined to think the penalty, 25 cents a 

 box, too high, for the box itself only costs aboTit 

 10 or 12 cents, and the size is only one bushel, 

 wihich often sells in our own markets for about 

 25 cents. According to this section, if a man 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



Parks, Cemeteries, Public and Private 

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Chas. Ernest Woolverton, Landscape Gardener 



GRIMSBY 



Drawings made to a scale, so that any gardener may carry 

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W^indsor 

 5ALT 



is all salt. Every grain is 

 a pure, dry, clean crystal. 

 That is why it never 

 cakes — dissolves instant- 

 ly — and goes farther 

 than any other. 



Insist on having 



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were by mistake to use a box varying ever so 

 slightly from the measurements, and w-ere ship- 

 ping in thousand lots, his fine would amount to 

 hundreds of dollars. 



Dishonest Packing 



The practice of topping or over-facing and 

 dishonest packing of fruit generally is thus re- 

 ferred to in the Market Growers' Gazette, Lon- 

 don, England 



"Honest packing is undoubtedly the keynote 

 of the success obtained by the Canadian, Nova 

 Scotian and French products. Salesmen have 

 many classes of buyers to deal with, and if 

 growers wish to reach the best buyers they 

 must pack the best quality, for no buyers of 

 first-class fruit will be deluded, at any rate 

 twice, into buying a top layer of the finest fruit 

 with nothing but inferior stuff below. 



" If this secondary fruit had been carefully 

 and fairly packed and sent separately, another 

 class of buyer, the largest one, would have pur- 

 chased it. This would mean much quicker 

 sales, and for the whole consignment a better 

 price. It does not follow that because a buyer 

 should pack as though he had a conscience he 

 should pack without using his intelligence. 



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