PACKING AND MARKETING FRUITS 45 



nailed or stapled on, the crate is marked with the 

 name of the variety and grade, and the package is 

 ready for the car. 



The Jersey basket. This is a slat basket made in 

 the form of the inverted frustum of a cone. In 

 other words, it is a round basket with a flat bottom, 

 wider at the top than at the bottom. These baskets 

 are made in various sizes, from 8 quarts to 32 quarts. 

 The 16-quart size is probably the best, and is most 

 used. The baskets are sometimes covered with slat 

 covers, but oftener are simply covered over with 



Jersey Peach Basket 



mosquito netting. Occasionally fancy peaches are 

 packed in 10-quart, 14-quart or 16-quart Jersey bas- 

 kets, and these are put up by twos in "pony" crates. 

 In some sections of the country, notably West Vir- 

 ginia, this package is rather popular. The writer 

 confesses himself unable to see anything really prac- 

 tical in it. 



The Climax, or Michigan basket. This is the third 

 form of the peach basket. It closely resembles the 



