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ORANGES. Not less than 1 box ; no packages to be broken. 



LEMONS. Not less than 1 box ; no packages to be broken. 



GRAPES OF ALL KINDS. Not less than 5 baskets. 



MALAGA GRAPES. By the keg only. 



PEACHES. Not less than 1 box or 1 bushel crate, or not 

 less than 5 baskets ; no packages to be broken. If in half- 

 bushel lots, not less than 2. 



PEARS. One box or barrel ; if in baskets, not less than 5. 



WATERMELONS. Not less than 25. 



MUSKMELONS. Not less than 25. 



STRAWBERRIES AND ALL OTHER BERRIES. Not less than a 

 32-quart crate, unless small quantity received. A 60-quart crate 

 may be halved. An exception made with raspberries : not less 

 than 15 quarts. In February and March, strawberries, not less 

 than 15 quarts. 



VI. MISCELLANEOUS WEIGHTS AND ESTIMATES. 

 38. Weights of Various Varieties of Apples per Bushel. 



The following varieties, just from the trees in October, gave 

 the following weights for a heaped bushel (Michigan) : 



Pounds. 



Baldwin 50 



Belmont 50 



Ben Davis . . . . . .47 



Bunker Hill 49 



Cabashae 57 



Esopus Spitzenburgh . . 44 



Rambo 50 



Rhode Island Greening . 52 

 Roxbury Russet .... 50 



Rubicon 46 



Stark. . 56 



Pounds. 



Fallawater 48 



Golden Russet .... 53 



Lawver 47 



Nickajack 51 



Northern Spy 46 



Pennock 47 



Swaar 51 



Sweet Bough 39 



Talman Sweet .... 48 

 Tompkins King .... 44 

 Yellow Bellefleur . 46 



39. Dried Fruit and Cider. 



A bushel of average apples gives from 6 to 7 pounds of evap- 

 orated product. Seven pounds to the bushel is a good average. 



