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are several hundred or a thousand boxes to examine, two 
or three days’ time will be necessary to go over them 
with the painstaking attention to details necessary. 
The details of examining a commercial box pack is not 
difficult to comprehend, but calls for careful work and 
an acuteness of judgment, which is altogether too often 
lacking. Having a copy of the official score card and a 
list of the classes of exhibits, the judges proceed to the 
racks and begin examining the fruit. Where the box 
entries are numerous it is impractical to go through 
every box. Of the 50 box entries, 10 are usually ex- 
amined; of the 25, five; of the 5, two, and of the single 
box entries it is customary to examine but half of the 
contents of each box. The judges work together. On the 
single box exhibits they score one at a time, finishing 
each variety before commencing on the next. Of the 
entries of five or more each judge takes a box, being 
careful to keep the same relative number for each one. 
The average then stands for the final score. The vari- 
ous entries are listed by number, and the name of the 
exhibitor kept off until after the prizes are awarded. 
Fig. 132.—EXAMINING THE BULGE 
