544 THE HANDBOOK FOR PRACTICAL FARMERS 



Water-cress is either marketed in bunches or in bulk in iced 

 barrels, or in iced barrel-high Delaware baskets. 



Cucumbers are marketed from the trucking region either in 

 ventilated barrels, barrel-high, or half bushel Delaware baskets ; 

 and in the pickle-growing districts they are marketed in bulk 

 by the hundred weight. 



Lettuce from the truck-farming district is marketed in 

 either half bushel or barrel-high Delaware baskets or in ven- 

 tilated barrels. The barrel package is not, however, generally 

 used. The flat carrier of the same type as that used in Cali- 

 fornia for shipping cauliflower is now extensively used for 

 lettuce. 



Spinach is almost universally marketed from the truck-farm- 

 ing sections in ventilated barrels. A small quantity is received 

 in barrel-high Delaware baskets. 



Okra is marketed either in six-basket carriers or in a special 

 flat carrier without baskets, in which the pods are carefully 

 arranged one layer wide. These packages are usually about two 

 feet long. 



Green peppers are almost universally marketed in six-basket 

 carriers. 



Radishes are tied in bunches and packed in one-bushel or 

 barrel-high Delaware baskets, as a rule. A few are marketed in 

 ventilated barrels. 



Strawberries are offered in quart cups, either in sixty-quart 

 crates from the Carolina and Norfolk region, or in twenty-four 

 or thirty-two quart crates from other regions, the thirty-two 

 quart being more universally used than any other. 



Dimensions. — The truck barrel is : Length of stave, twenty- 

 eight and one half inches, between heads, twenty-six inches; 

 diameter of heads, seventeen and one-half inches ; bulge of the 

 barrel, sixty-four inches over all ; thickness of stave, four-tenths 

 inch. 



The eggplant and squash crate has a head eleven inches by 

 fourteen inches, and is twenty-four inches long. 



The half-barrel basket commonly used in the Norfolk region 

 is twenty inches high, nine and one-half inches at the bottom, and 

 slats twenty-six inches long, outside measure, making it ten 

 inches by fifteen inches by seventeen inches by twenty-four 

 inches inside. 



The one-half barrel lettuce basket, called the "Delaware 

 barrel-high basket" is sixteen inches inside diameter at the top, 

 nine inches inside diameter at the bottom, and twenty-seven 



