RIPENING, GATHERING, HANDLING AND MARKETING 95 



canneries is usually picked and handled in bushel 

 crates of lath. These various packages are usually 

 sold in the flat and the grower puts them together as 

 is convenient before the crop comes on ; but in many 

 sections where there are large shipments they are 

 often put together by the package dealers. Fig. 30 



FIG. 30 GREENHOUSE TOMATOES PACKED FOR MARKET 



(By courtesy Ohio Experiment Station) 



shows tomatoes as packed by the Ohio experiment 

 station. 



Fruits after frost. — Sometimes when there is a 

 great quantity of partially ripe and full grown green 

 fruit on the vines which is liable to be spoiled by an 

 early fall frost, it can be saved by pulling the vines 

 and placing them in windrows and covering them 

 with straw. Of course the vines should be handled 

 carefully to shake off as little fruit as possible. If 

 the freeze is followed by a spell of warm, dry weather 



