APPLES 
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Fig 86 Showing Proper and Impioper Crown 
sult, rather than toward the opposite 
mistake The ideal is a firm pack with 
the end apples flush with the box heads. 
However, in a loose pack the end ap- 
ples, aS well as the whole crown, can be 
allowed to come higher, without fear of 
bruising from the lid. As previously 
stated, the height of the whole pack can 
be regulated by the style of pack used, 
with reference to the direction in which 
the stems point. The proper relation of the 
height of end and the height of crown 1s 
obtained by other means In the flat 
pack this apparently comes of its own 
accord. This is because the spaces at the 
end of the box in this pack are larger 
than the interstices between the apples, 
and they allow the end apples in the lay- 
er above to slip down lower Sometimes, 
however, taller apples will have to be 
selected for the middle, and lower ones 
for the ends. 
In the cheek pack three methods for 
lowering the ends of the pack can be 
employed. (1) Advantage is taken of 
any lopsidedness in the apples. Those ap- 
ples in the middle of the box (from end 
to end) are placed with their greatest 
transverse diameter extending from top 
to bottom, and those in the end with it 
extending from side to side. (2) One or 
two rows across the end of the box in 
as many layers as necessary are turned 
flat. This is usually at but one end of 
any one layer, the layers alternating as 
to the end in which the apples are turned. 
This method is avoided by many pack- 
ers because it makes the pack irregular, 
but it is to be preferred to bruised ap- 
ples. Many now use a simplified form 
of this method, simply tilting toward the 
That to the Left is Too High. 
opposite end of the box, in the second 
layer from the top, the apple on the end 
of the row that does not touch the end of 
the box, turning it only far enough to al- 
low the cheek ot the end apple in the top 
layer to fit into the cavity-cup or the 
basin-cup of the tilted apple An especial- 
ly flat apple is selected for the one to he 
tilted (38) The ends are packed a trifle 
loose. Care will have to be taken in using 
this method that the apples next to the 
ones against the lower head of the box 
are pushed toward the opposite end of 
the box as far as they will go Otherwise 
their slipping down toward the lower 
head will prevent the end apples in the 
next layer above from sinking their prop- 
er depth by reducing the size of the pock- 
ets into which they are to fit. In placing 
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