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tising anybody's baskets. We used to use a round peach 

 basket but we do not use that style for peaches to-day. A 

 peach grower wants a basket that he can set onto his wagon, 

 and stack it up eight feet high, if it is necessary. You cannot 

 do that with the round basekt. A basket of this form enables 

 you to do that. These baskets are made in different sizes, 

 holding from one-fifth of a bushel up to a half. A basket of 

 that type can be stacked right up on the wagon six or eight 

 feet high. In this way you save space. 



Now there is another point about baskets. This basket 

 that I hold in my right hand is not as liable to be crushed by 

 pressure as this other one. You will notice that this basket 

 has its parts arranged vertically. You wili find that that 

 basket will stand ten times the amount of pressure that this 

 basket will where the sides run right around. I hope you will 

 adopt one in which the wood fibres are vertical to the bottom 

 of the basket. In that way you will avoid the crushing of 

 the basket. I have seen musk-melons put up in this class of 

 basket and stacked up eight baskets high. In packing red 

 raspberries we should be very careful. You do not want to> 

 put red raspberries in deep baskets. They settle down more 

 readily in such baskets. So I think if we will take a little 

 pains and pack them in baskets such as these, they will 

 make a better appearance. Oftentimes it makes quite a dif- 

 ference how the fruit is packed as to what it sells for. This 

 basket carrier is used very often for peaches, tomatoes and 

 things of that kind. I have seen Elberta peaches that sold 

 ordinarily at seventy-five cents a bushel sell for one dollar 

 a carrier when packed in a carrier like this. 



Prof. Stevens excellent address was attentively listened 

 to and thoroughly appreciated, especially his advice with re- 

 gard to the putting up of fruits for market. The samples of 

 fruit packages which he exhibited, added much to the value 

 of the talk. 



