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closely resembled the Gravensteins to follow that it was 

 very misleading. 



Now there is another point 1 woidd like to bring out at 

 this time, that is the desirability of buying neve packages 

 lor the better fruit and using the old packages or the 

 se<^ond-hand. packages, (your bushel boxes, second-hand 

 ]>arrels. etc.) for the lower grades. I think this is particu- 

 larly true when you are doing a fine berry business. 



There is a little difference between grades of berry 

 packages. This, (showing a strawberry box), is the grade 

 known as the D. G. or dark ground grade, and this as the 

 W. AV. or White Wood. The difference in price is twenty- 

 fve to fifty cents a thousand, so that is a very small con- 

 sideration, but there is difference enough in the looks of the 

 piickage to warrant the better package, the W. W. or White 

 Wood grade, and I think this is also true of your packages 

 where you are employing the bushel or barrel. I think it 

 will pay you to put the extra two or three cents into the 

 better package. 



The package question is a serious one at best, and of 

 course it costs the fruit grower quite a percentage of his 

 receipts, and yet I believe that it is a poor place at which 

 to economize. 



There is one other feature about using a Boston mar- 

 ket bushel box. the Boston market bushel is a good legal 

 tender, you can almost always get an allowance for the 

 package or get your money back. I don't know just where 

 that stands in the Boston market today. 



]MR. PATCH: The box is a legal tender for about eight 

 cents. 



]MR. SMITH: And it would cost us about twelve cents 

 to get a package we would like to put on the market with 

 Lrst class fruit, so it is better to put on the bushel box. 

 Some growers are using great originality in the labels and 

 I.-acking and marking. Ever since the days of the Hale 

 package and label "U. C. Top, U. C. All," others have been 

 trying to modify and imitate it and I believe that every 



