104 The Fruit-Growers Guide-Book 



Packing the Boxes 



Fruit that has the skin punctured should not be packed. 

 Apples that have lost their stems, provided the skin is not 

 broken where a stem is pulled out, may be packed, al- 

 though too many such should not be put in any one box. 

 First quality fruit must have the stem left in the apple. 



Four tier apples in a box packed "straight." 



There are three styles of packs used in the apple sec- 

 tions of the Western states. One of these, the "jumble" 

 pack, is confined to Colorado and portions of Utah, but 

 will possibly be displaced in a few years by the tier pack 

 of the Northwest. In the far Northwest, two other styles, 

 known as "straight" and "diagonal" tier packs are in use. 



