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tacks this crop. Kosin sprays are to be recommended for 

 this insect. Apply thoroughly on the under side of the 

 leaves with a vermoreal nozzle and elbow. Anyone can 

 get the formulas for all kinds of insect sprays by writing 

 the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Picking and Packing. 



In gathering and packing the crop, lined baskets' and 

 boxes should be used, as recommended for tomatoes. A 

 bin also lined and padded, consisting of a table fourteen 

 feet long, three feet high, three feet wide, should be pro- 

 vided. The fruit is clipped one-half inch, from the stem 

 junction with the fruit. Bushel baskets with bails are 

 used. The fruit is cut when it is large enough to pack 

 30 to the crate. Do not cut smaller, unless it is getting 

 too old, which is evidenced by a wine color in the Black 

 Beauty, On young, vigorous vines a 30-size is not full 

 grown by any means, but this is the best size, and liey 

 should be taken off when that size is reached. As the 

 vines grow older and more heavily fruited, they will of 

 course have to be cut smaller. The fruit should never 

 be cut while wet with dew or rain. The packing bin 

 should be divided by three partitions and the brusher 

 should set his field box just opposite the middle partition. 

 A frame made to hold an empty crate is made at each 

 end of the bin, and the top of the crate should come about 

 six inches above the top of the bin. The half-barrel crate 

 should be used 12 inches by 14 inches by 22 inches. The 

 brusher then provides himself with a large feather dust- 

 ing brush, and brushes the sand from the plant as he as- 

 sorts them. All nice smooth plants running 36, and 



