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instead of the ordinary 12-quart size. Now there is only one excuse for 

 very small packages, and that is, where the fruit is of extraordinary beauty or 

 size, and therefore will command extraordinary prices. It is always better to 

 put up ordinary fruit in ordinary packages, as there is less expense about pack- 

 ing and less trouble to the salesmen in handling them. Besides, it is very 

 inconvenient for railway companies to handle large quantities of fruit in small 

 baskets. No wonder the agents and trainmen become impatient and throw 

 about the baskets in such a reckless fashion, or that the Grand Trunk Railway 



Fig. 50. —The Tribow Basket. 



officials should have become impatient of delays and given an order, as they did 

 the other morning, that the daily express trains were to stop no longer than was 

 needful for the accommodation of passengers. Several hundred baskets of 

 peaches were, in consequence of this order, left behind at Grimsby station, not- 

 withstanding the angry faces of the many shippers who were waiting to see their 

 fruit safely aboard. 



One thing is certain, and that is, that the rapid growth of the fruit industry 

 requires accommodations from the railway companies not yet thought of. Fruit 



