538 THE HANDBOOK FOR PRACTICAL FARMERS 



Fruit Packages 

 Sizes and weights of packages for deciduous fruits (California Fruit Distributors) 



Cherries 



Peaches 



Pears 



Pears for export to Europe. 



Prunes 



Apricots 



Nectarines 



Plums 



Grapes 



Grapes 



11 pounds per box. 

 21% pounds per box. 

 50 pounds per box. 



24 pounds per box. 



26 pounds per single crate. 

 26 pounds per single crate. 



25 pounds per single crate. 



26 pounds per single crate. 

 26 pounds per single crate. 

 56 pounds per double crate. 



In Inches 



Chautauqua, N. Y., grape figures. — The grapes are sliipped 

 in eight-pound Climax baskets, which weigh, when not filled, 

 twenty ounces. A carload is two thousand eight hundred to 

 three thousand baskets. A girl mil pack from one hundred to 

 one hundred and fifty baskets per day. One and one-fourth cents 

 per basket is paid for picking and packing. An average acre of 

 Concord grapes yields about five hundred baskets. The average 

 annual cost of cultivating the vineyard up to picking time is 

 eight dollars. The expense of picking, packing, packages, and 

 carting is about twenty-eight dollars for the five hundred 

 baskets. In bulk the grapes are shipped in crates of thirty-eight 

 pound capacity ; cost of picking in crates is about two cents for 

 quantity representing two and one-half baskets. The bunches 

 are cut from the vines ^^dth shears made for the purpose. In the 

 packing house the bunches are trimmed. 



Citrus fruits. — The specifications of the boxes used in the 

 packing of California oranges are shown in the railroad tariffs 

 with an estimated weight, and the box so shown is the only one 

 used. The inside dimensions are eleven and one-half inches by 



