9C PEACH CULTURE. 



baskets if the latter have to be returned. Such being 

 the reasons urged, and the tendency of public opinion 

 among growers, it is not likely that many baskets will 

 be returned hereafter New York commission-men re- 

 turned none in 1888 t 



CRATES, 



THE standard dimensions of a crate are eight inches 

 wide, fourteen deep, and twenty-three and a half long, out- 

 side measure. They are made of pine or other light 

 wood. The ends and partition are sawed three-quarters 

 of an inch thick, seven and a half wide, and fourteen 

 long. The bottom and top twenty-three and a half long, 

 six and a half wide, and three-eighths of an inch thick. 

 The sides are composed of four slats, twenty-three and a 

 half inches long, two and a half inches wide, and also 

 three-eighths of an inch thick. Sometimes lighter stuff 

 is use*d. The ends and partition are thicker, because to 

 these all the other pieces are nailed. The whole crate 

 consists of thirteen pieces. It is very simple in construc- 

 tion, and any intelligent hand, with a proper frame, can 

 put it up without difficulty. The stuff is sometimes 

 planed on the outside, which gives it a much neater 



appearance. Crates of this 

 kind cost about ten dollars 

 per hundred. They go with 

 the peaches, and are never 

 " returned ; hence, those who 

 ship in crates must provide 



as many crates as they have 

 fruit to fin them% The rea . 



sons they are not returned, are two. First: they cannot 

 be packed in each other like baskets, but occupy precisely 

 as much room as when full. Besides, they are much 

 more troublesome to handle, and the transporters will 



