Packing and Grading the Fruit 299 



Seckel pears are usually shipped, without wrapping, in 

 five-inch peach boxes lined with the heavy paper com- 

 monly used in lining apple boxes. Small fruit of other 

 varieties is sometimes shipped in this way and labeled 

 "pickling pears." The time may not be far distant when 

 our fanciest fruit will be shipped in one of the peach boxes 

 or in half-bushel boxes. Some of our early Bartletts are 

 noV shipped in this way. 



Pears are generally packed by the piece, five cents per 

 box being the common wage paid. Most of the packing is 

 done by girls, who pack from fifty to seventy-five boxes 

 per day. Men who are expert at the business have packed 

 one hundred boxes in an eight-hour day; some possibly do 

 better. 



GRADING-LIST OF THE GRAND JUNCTION FRUIT- 

 GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, GRAND JUNCTION, 

 COLORADO 



Peaches 



Boxes containing 80 peaches or less extra 



Boxes containing 81 peaches to 94 . 90's 



Boxes containing 95 peaches to 108 * . . 108's 



All grades must be free from worms, all other defects and a 

 tight pack. 



Apples 



Fancy. Winesap, Grimes Golden, Missouri Pippin, Red 

 Romanite, Geniton, and kindred varieties must be two and one- 

 fourth (2J) inches in diameter and up. Boxes of Missouri Pippins 

 and Winesap must not contain to exceed 15 per cent of 2J-inch 

 apples. Eighty-five per cent must be larger. Jonathans, Arkan- 

 sas Black, Ben Davis, Gano, Willow Twig, Shackelford, Pear- 

 main, Mammoth Black Twig, Rome Beauty, White Winter Pippin, 

 Mann, Tallman Sweet, Dominie, Mclntosh, Wealthy, Steele's Red, 



