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are several hundred or a thousand boxes to examine, two 

 or three days' time will be necessary to go over them 

 with the painstaking attention to details necessary. 



The details of examining a commercial box pack is not 

 difficult to comprehend, but calls for careful work and 

 an acuteness of judgment, which is altogether too often 

 lacking. Having a copy of the official score card and a 

 list of the classes of exhibits, the judges proceed to the 

 racks and begin examining the fruit. Where the box 

 entries are numerous it is impractical to go through 

 every box. Of the 50 box entries, 10 are usually ex- 

 amined ; of the 25, five ; of the 5, two, and of the single 

 box entries it is customary to examine but half of the 

 contents of each box. The judges work together. On the 

 single box exhibits they score one at a time, finishing 

 each variety before commencing on the next. Of the 

 entries of five or more each judge takes a box, being 

 careful to keep the same relative number for each one. 

 The average then stands for the final score. The vari- 

 ous entries are listed by number, and the name of the 

 exhibitor kept off until after the prizes are awarded. 



Fig. 132. EXAMINING THE BULGE 



