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FRUIT-GROWER, ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



should go in in rows and tiers just as oranges are 

 packed. On the Pacific Coast, where all these tricks 

 are better understood than on this side of the Great 

 Divide, they do this think excellently well. Mr. E. C. 

 Diokerson of North Yakima, Wash., in the October, 



Fig. 1. 



1904, number of The Fruit-Grower told how they 

 do it there. Here is his description: 



There are some thirty or forty sizes of apples, 



