Packing the Fruit 



397 



lined with several thicknesses of paper, the spring of the 

 paper itself will take up the slack and will keep the fruit 

 in place; and in such cases it is not necessary to apply 

 heavy pressure in the heading up of the barrel. 



FIQ. 163. The three tiers of the 3 x 2 diamond pack. 



On the best brands of fruit, a trade-mark is often 

 important. Some neat pictorial design, with the name 

 of the grower and a statement to the effect that the fruit 

 is guaranteed to be as represented, attracts the eye of the 

 purchaser and gives him confidence in the article; but to 

 put a trade-mark on fruit of indifferent or even of ordinary 

 quality is little more than a travesty. If a man uses 

 a trade-mark, he must expect, of course, to handle his 

 own produce, or at least to see that it reaches the market 

 under his own name. The fruit-buyers who travel through 

 the country for apples and other pro- 

 duce ordinarily pay little attention to 

 the trade-mark of the grower, but put 

 their own mark on the package. If 

 one really grows a good quality of 

 fruit, it will commonly pay him to 



J . J FIG. 164. End view of 



give his farm an attractive name, Fig. 163. 



