Packing the Fruit 



397 



lined with several thicknesses of paper, the spring of the 

 paper itself will take up the slack and will keep the fruit 

 in place; and in such cases it is not necessary to apply 

 heavy pressure in the heading up of the barrel. 



FiQ. 163. The three tiers of the 3x2 diamond pack. 



On the best brands of fruit, a trade-mark is often 

 important. Some neat pictorial design, with the name 

 of the grower and a statement to the effect that the fruit 

 is guaranteed to be as represented, attracts the eye of the 

 pm-chaser and gives him confidence in the article; but to 

 put a trade-mark on fruit of indifferent or even of ordinary 

 quality is little more than a travesty. If a man uses 

 a trade-mark, he must expect, of course, to handle his 

 own produce, or at least to see that it reaches the market 

 under his own name. The fruit-buyers who travel through 

 the country for apples and other pro- 

 duce ordinarily pay Uttle attention to 

 the trade-mark of the grower, but put 

 their own mark on the package. K 

 one really grows a good quality of 

 fruit, it will commonly pay him to 



' . . , , , • Fia- 164- End view of 



give his farm an attractive name, Fig. i63. 



