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paper and peucil to reckon 32 or 48 or 2-1 times. With a 

 large amount to handle every minute saved is valuable. 

 In these trays the berries are not crushed as in the old crates 

 by the weight of layers above them. They are made deep 

 enough to allow well filled baskets that do not have to be 

 tipped over and filled up by the retailer. They interlock, 

 something like a sectional bookcase so that they pile safely 

 10 high, and take less room than crates. Berries can bo 

 handled much riper in trays than crates and the riper they 

 are. without being soft, the sweeter and richer flavor they 

 have and the better satisfaction they give. For a distant 

 market they should be picked hard ripe. Now I cannot 

 show you one of these trays filled with strawberries at this 

 time, but I have used small Baldwin apples in place of them 

 and you can see the effect; only imagine they are straw- 

 berries. 



I have found the transportation of sun ripened fruit one 

 of the hardest problems that I have met and I have solved it 

 by the use of added springs and decks on wagons and trucks. 

 My wagon that takes the berries from the field to the pack- 

 ing floor has a deck set on several dozen spiral springs and 

 my ton and a half White truck has a body built with four 

 sets of springs of varying stiffness between the floors so that; 

 there is no jar or shake to the load ; it rides like a boat on 

 the water. 



Ordinary wagon springs are stiff and hard ruling, even 

 at slow speed, unless loaded enough to bring them down, and 

 every bump tends to shake down and l)ruise the fruit. My 

 truck floor is so delicately, yet strongly supported, that 

 there is no jar or damage whether one traj- or eighty are 

 carried; whether the trip is five minutes to the nearest store, 

 or two hours to Boston market; two miles or 30 miles. The 

 people of Boston show the least sense in the management of 

 their street department of any city T ever drove into on 

 Avheels. They have the most delightfully smooth, wide and 

 Avell cared for boulevards for pleasure and light travel, up- 

 on which even a light truck going to a "New England Fruit 



