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and considers that he greatly increases his profits toy doing 

 so. The latter grower understands the art of packing apples 

 in boxes and does not have to depend upon inexperienced and 

 untrained labor to do the packing. 



Fourteen growers indicated that they expected to pack 

 some of their apples in boxes in the future. Six growers 

 were of the opinion that fancy apples, Albemarle, Winesap, 

 and Stayman Winesap should be packed in boxes. The general 

 opinion is that it is not worth while to pack apples of low 

 grade in boxes. 



The chief difficulties reported by the growers regard- 

 ing the use of the box are (1) the markets do not particu- 

 larly demand boxed apples,* (2) the labor obtainable is in- 

 efficient for this work and consequently the packing is 

 done poorly, and at greater expense than packing the same 

 quantity of fruit in barrels. The latter difficulty may 

 be overcome in a large measure by gradually training men 

 to know the art of box packing. 



The great bulk of Virginia apples is packed in 



barrels. 



