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shipped in ventilated barrels packed in excelsior, barrels being 

 standard truck-crop-barrel of two and three-quarter bushels. 

 California package is a flat carrier holding one dozen or one 

 and one-half dozen heads. 



Brussels sprouts are packed in quart cups, in crates holding 

 thirty-two cups. 



Tomatoes from eastern states in crates, holding about one 

 bushel, similar to those used for the shipment of muskmelons, 

 dimensions about twelve inches by twelve inches by twenty-two 

 inches. Some fruits arrive from Florida in this type of package, 

 but most tomatoes come in six-basket carriers similar to those 

 used for peaches. In Texas a flat, four-basket carrier, which is 

 only one tier deep, is almost universally used. 



Onions of the winter sorts are shipped either in ventilated 

 barrels or standard sacks holding about two and three-quarter 

 bushels, or one hundred pounds weight. The Texas Bermuda 

 crop is universally shipped in slatted bushel crates, twenty 

 inches long, twelve inches wide and twelve inches deep. 



Celery from the Florida section is packed in flat crates usu- 

 ally eleven inches by twenty inches by twenty-four inches. The 

 California package is a cubical crate, twenty-four inches by 

 twenty-four inches by twenty inches. Most Eastern sections use 

 the California type of package. 



Muskmelons from most sections arrive in a veneer crate very 

 similar in shape to the orange box, but somewhat smaller, the 

 dimensions being approximately twelve inches by twelve inches 

 by twenty-two inches. Some sections ship melons in sixty-quart 

 and thirty-two quart berry crates, while a small percentage of 

 the crop arrives in flat carriers arranged to hold a single layer 

 of melons. These carriers usually contain eighteen to twenty- 

 four melons. 



Eggplants are usually wrapped in paper and forwarded in 

 sixty-quart berry crates. 



Peas are shipped largely in five-eighths standard Delaware 

 baskets with ventilated wood covers, or in barrel-high Delaware 

 baskets with ventilated wood covers. 



String beans (snap) are shipped either in one-half bushel or 

 barrel-high Delaware baskets. 



Beets are usually pulled when two or two and one-half inches 

 in diameter and tied in bunches of three to six beets and packed 

 in sixty-quart berry crates, ventilated barrels, or barrel-high 

 Delaware baskets, depending on the market to which they are 

 consigned. 



