CONTENTS 



\'I1I. Summary of Packages 

 IX. Wrapping Fruits 

 X. Marks on Packages . 



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VII. 



VIII. 



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XV. 



XVI. 



XVII. 



XVIII. 



XIX. 



Part Five— FRUIT STORAGE 



Requirements 



Systems of Storage 



Handling the Fruit 



Temperatures 



Grape Storage 



Storing Vegetables 



Storage in Pits . 



Storage in "Dugouts" or "Caves' 



Mr. T. L. Kinney's House 



A Canadian Fruit House 



Professor Alwood's Storage House 



A Nova Scotia House 



Mr. T. B. Wilson's House 



Mrs. L. E. Allen's Storage House 



Notes on Various Storage Houses 



Design for Simple Lean-to Storage 



Design for Commodious Hillside Storage 



Design for a Thousand-barrel Storage House 



Special Design for Arthur H. Hill . 



Part Six— APPENDIX 



Imports and Exports of Fruits, United States 



VI 



VII 



VIII 



IX 



X 



II. Exports of Apples from Canada 

 II. State Fruit-package Laws 

 V. Apple Shippers' Rules 

 V. The National League of Commiss 

 of the United States 



Commission Charges 



Shipment in Refrigerator Cars . 



The Apple Crop and Market 



The Cranberry Crop 



ion Merchant 



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Handling Southern Grapes 220 



Index 223 



