466 The Principles of Friit-growing. 
large packages are used, and the grades are not so 
carefully made, there is less reason for finding fault 
with a few poor fruits. It is also true that many of 
the packages, especially in the handling of peaches, 
have been too small to allow of thoroughly honest 
packing. This is true of the fifth and sixth-bushel 
baskets especially. They are either too high or too 
low to allow a given number of full tiers of fruit 
to be placed in them, and in order to bring the top 
layer up to its required height, it is often necessary 
to insert a layer of small fruits somewhere below 
the top; and this small fruit is commonly placed in 
the middle, because the packer cannot always dis- 
cover if he must use it until the package is par- 
tially filled. 
In the distribution of fruit, it should be re- 
membered that the establishing of a reputation for 
the fruit is quite as important as the securing of 
a remunerative price for the present samples; there- 
fore, the inferior fruits and eulls should be kept 
in the home markets, or manufactured into cider or 
other secondary products; or, if shipped, they should 
be placed upon the market without guaranty and 
without the grower’s name. They are then sold 
simply upon their merits, without the recommenda- 
tion of the grower’s uname or any attractive label 
or description. 
Refrigerator cars.—Fruit which is of superior 
quality will pay for considerable extra effort in 
transportation. If it is of a perishable nature, and 
the market is more than six or eight hours away, 
