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stock. Now you have four grades. Have four partitions 

 in your packing bin — one for each grade, the size of the 

 partitions being made to suit the probable quantity of 

 each grade. Now you are ready for packing. The six 

 basket carrier is used principally in the South and all 

 fruit wrapped. In Texas and Mississippi and a few 

 other points the four-basket flat carrier is used without 

 wrapping. Taking for granted that the six-basket car- 

 rier is used, proceed to the packing. The full ripe and 

 colored stock can be assorted in two grades as packed. 

 As there are only a few of these grades, they can be 

 marked fancy and choice as they are marked up. The 

 green stock should be packed very tightly, and the fruit 

 should come one-haK inch above the top of the basket, 

 usually turning both layers on edge — ^unless fruit is large. 

 In this case the largest fruit should be placed flat in bot- 

 tom of basket. This is the most popular size and makes 

 the prettier pack. The writer has found that it is better 

 to designate by a particular brand instead of marking them 

 fancy and choice. The ripe tomatoes can be used in 

 nearby markets by express, and the colored stock marked 

 ripe and shipped in ventilated cars with the green stock. 

 When the car reaches market the colored stock will be in 

 about right condition to use at once, and may be distin- 

 guished from the green stock by being branded ripe. 

 There is a universal and growing demand for tomatoes, 

 and it is not likely that fancy Southern stock will ever 

 go begging. 



Diseases. 



There are several kinds of fungous diseases that attack 

 the tomatoes and also a bacterial blight which is worst of 



