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number of times it has been before us. But should we visit most any 

 of our markets in fruit time and see the way fruits are brought in; 

 strawberries and other small fruits, for instance, in pails and pans 

 (ready for jam, with tlie extraction of a little dirt and the addition of 

 a little sugar), peaches and plums in boxes and barrels, apples and 

 pears in meal bags — not particularly well shaken (the bags I mean, 

 no such imputation wauld apply to the fruit, as the numerous bruises 

 would testify), we should come to the conclusion that there was a 

 necessity for a little more discussion or missionary work, or something 

 of the kind, in this direction. If men are so blind that they can't see 

 the difference between getting forty cents a bag for their apples, shook 

 from the trees and carried to market in bags, and fifty to seventy-five 

 cents per half bushel for good hand picked fruit, in good, clean baskets, 

 or $2 to S3 per barrel, I think it the duty of the society to send out 

 a missionary to enlighten them. But, to come to the question, the 

 best way of putting up fruits for the market. This depends upon the 

 object you have in view, whether it is to make the most you can out 

 of your present crop, without regard to satisfaction to your customers 

 or your reputation for the future, or to give satisfaction to your 

 customers and your own conscience, and establish a reputation that 

 will be of use to you hereafter. If the former object is your aim, in 

 the first place get the cheapest packages you can, as near like ordinary 

 ones as you can, and have them hold as much less as possible and look 

 like them. This you can do by giving special orders to the manu- 

 facturers. Then put iu all your fruit, good, bad and indifferent — don't 

 lose any of it — but be sure you get the good fruit on top of the 

 packages, put the best side up and make it look beautiful — buyers 

 will think it alike all the way through, CvSpecially if they have been 

 dealing with honest men. In putting into barrels have good fruit in 

 both ends, as some folks look at both ends when buying — you can put 

 all the poor stuff in the middle of the barrel. If you are not likely to 

 have fruit enough, put in a pumpkin or two or a few turnips to fill 

 up, they will be useful to the buyer, and he will never know who did 

 it, and it will be li^cely to go to the old country. Don't put your 

 name on and you are safe. This course carefully pursued may insure 

 you the most money for your first crop, providing you don't happen to 

 sell to the same party twice. In that case you could go to some other 

 jnarket where you were not known. But if your object is to satisfy 



