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FRUIT FARMING 



CHAPTER XX. 



PACKAGE OF FRUIT FOR SALE. 



GRADING FRUIT. This matter should have most 

 careful attention from growers, as it is of vital 

 importance. All kinds of hard fruit pay well for 

 sorting, and when graded and marketed as firsts, 

 seconds, and thirds, will make frequently 50 per cent, 

 more than the same fruit sent to market unsorted. 



In large growths it would pay producers to register 

 a special " brand " name on a distinctly colored paper, 

 and thus secure a reputation for quality and honest 

 packing. The printing of the paper after the first 

 cost of a wood block would be a small charge, and a 

 half sheet could be placed on the surface after the 

 usual packing paper had been bent over the top of 

 the basket, something in this style : 



The corners being turned into the basket rim. 



