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should only be shipped in 4-inch peach 
baskets where special order is given. 
(d) Wherever possible use square 
pack. 
(e) Size of crate 444x16x17%, except 
for extreme sizes, then increase or dimin- 
ish depth only. 
(f) Care should be used by the packer 
in placing the paper in the basket. Crate 
should be placed on packing table with 
slatted side toward the packer; after four 
baskets are fitted into the crate, they 
should have the paper fitted into them in 
such a way as to cover half the bottom of 
each basket, allowing the remaining pa- 
per to lap over the slatted sides of the 
crate; after first tier is packed in basket 
fold paper over it and pack second tier 
which in turn should be covered by the 
paper, and the third or last tier packed, 
after which the remaining paper should 
be folded over the top. 
(g) Pack all Italians and Tragedies 
three tiers, stem end down; pack top tier 
with creased sides lined up. 
(h) Varieties that will go 4x4 in a 
square pack, or larger, may be packed 
two tiers: Hungarians, Bradshaws, Peach 
Plums and similar varieties smaller than 
5x5 should not be packed. 
6—CRAB APPLES: 
(a) Crab apples should be shipped in 
apple boxes only, unless otherwise spec- 
ified. 
(b) Double line the boxes and fill in. 
(c) Care should be taken by those fill- 
ing in boxes to keep out all imperfect 
fruit; boxes, after being well shaken down 
and nailed up, should have from one to 
one and a half inch bulge, counting top 
and bottom. 
(d) Never mix varieties. 
7—PEHACHES: 
(a) Pack direct from picking pail or 
basket into three or more boxes if the 
fruit does not run uniform in size. 
(b) The folded ends of the paper on 
wrapped peach should go down, as a 
cushion for the fruit to rest on. 
(c) In packing, the boxes should rest 
on an incline with the lower end to the 
packer. The peaches in the top tier should 
rest in the spaces between the peaches 
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in the lower tier, so that no peach will 
1est squarely on top of another. 
(d) In packing the larger sizes, both 
tiers should be carried forward together 
so as to regulate the height of the pack. 
(e) The stem of the peach should 
always be packed down. 
(f) Hach box should show a bulge not 
to exceed three-eighths of an inch. 
(zg) The packed box should never be 
accepted by warehouse where the fruit is 
loose and the box rattles. 
(h) All peaches that go five across the 
end of the box or smaller should be pack- 
ed in a 8x3 pack. Those larger than five 
across the end of box should be packed 
three by two. 
(1) 8x38 Pack. Place first peach in 
lower left hand corner, the other two to 
be so placed that the space between the 
first and second and second and third will 
be the same size as that between the low- 
er right hand corner of box and the third 
peach. Place the next three peaches in 
the spaces formed by the placing of the 
first three, continuing the pack in the 
same manner until the tier is finished, al- 
ways taking pains to see that the spaces 
are the same size and the alignment of 
the fruit is perfect. In starting the sec- 
ond tier begin on the opposite side of 
the box and pack directly over the spaces 
formed by packing of the first tier. 
(2) 2x3 Pack. Start the box with the 
two and then the three. Place the first 
two peaches so that the spacing between 
the peaches and the two corners of the 
box will be the same as that between the 
peaches. Place the three peaches in the 
spaces provided by the placing of the first 
two. Continue the pack in the same man- 
ner, remembering always to keep the 
spaces the same size and alignment per- 
fect. Pack the second tier directly over 
the spaces formed by the packing of the 
first tier. 
8—PHARS: 
(a) Two or more boxes should be used 
in packing pears. 
(b) Always pack direct from box into 
which fruit has been sorted, never from a 
canvas table. 
