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HiTFLUEUGE OP TYPE OP PACKAGE. 



The principal packages for apples are the three 

 bushel barrels or boxes holding forty or fifty poimds. 

 Pears are often packed in barrels or large boxes, while 

 peaches and most small fruits are packed in packages jfea 

 that are much smaller. Peaches are sometimes put up in 

 bushel and half -bushel packages '^ut the small basket 

 holding about ten pounds is the most common pack and six 

 or even more of these sometimes placed in a single crate. 



People are beginning to realize every year that the 

 small package is the better. The larger the bulk of the 

 fruit and the more it is protected from the air the lon- 

 ger it retains the heat after entering the storage room. 

 The fruit in this condition remains hot in the center 

 for a considerably length of time and the fruit con- 

 tinues to ripen near the center and if it is a quick ri- 

 pening sort will often become perfectly soft before the 

 fruit can be cooled through. The smaller package there- 

 fore presents distinct advantages for the early quick 

 ripening varieties and ia most useful in the hottest 

 weather as the fruit cools down quickly throughout the 

 package and its ripening proceeds uniformly. The long- 

 keeping varieties, however, tliat are harvested and shipp- 

 ed in cooler weather is less liable to be hurt by the 

 large package. 



