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The Department would ask fruit growers 

 to give the standard in fruit packing a care- 

 ful trial. After some experience shall have 

 been gained they will be glad to co-operate 

 with fruit growers in considering further im- 

 provements and suggestions for the encourage- 

 ment of this industry. 



The benefit to producer and consumer 

 generally, of a universal system of uniform 

 weights, measures and packages non-return- 

 Confusion able would be untold. That one miserable 

 basket used in the Midlands and called "a 

 pot " is most confusing and tiresome ; as for 

 instance a pot of apples is supposed to contain 

 64 Ibs. ; a pot of plums or damsons, 72 Ibs. ; 

 of potatoes, 80 Ibs. ; beans or peas, 40 Ibs. ; 

 onions, 70 Ibs. ; spinach and other greens, 

 20 Ibs. I find in that useful annual u Farm 

 and Home Year Book " a list of fruit and 

 Terms used vegetable market measures, and in it an 



in different . . r i r n i 



counties explanation or the following terms : bundle 

 bunch, bushel basket, bushel sieve, flasket, 

 flats, hand, junks, roll, sieve, half sieve, load 



