84 FRUIT HARVESTING, STORING, MARKETING 



The use of some such small, convenient, and at- 

 tractive package for fancy apples is amply justified on 

 theoretical grounds, and its adoption is only a question 

 of time and of evolution in the trade. Already some 

 sellers have been successful with small packages, and 

 the more unsatisfactory experience of other shippers 

 is usually fairly attributable to the conservatism of the 



FIG. 28 — MR. shepherd's APPLE BOX 



market. It takes a while for any new thing to become 

 established, however meritorious it may- be. Commis- 

 sion men generally have held out against the small 

 package for apples, and their influence is naturally 

 great. 



One of the best, and certainly the most successful, 

 apple box of which I know is the one used by Mr. 

 R. W. Shepherd, of Montreal, for the fancy export 



