CARELESS PACKING. 9L 
“covers a multitude of sins.” Choice specimens 
should not be placed on the top of the barrel; for 
purchasers usually “empty packages,” and if the 
fruit grows smaller in size and inferior in quality as 
the bottom is neared, every one knows to what de- 
cision the buyer will come. That brand will not be 
sought for by the same party the second time. On 
the contrary, if the fruit is uniform in size through- 
out the barrel, not only is the same brand bought 
again, but it becomes known in the market; it will 
always command the highest price, and will sell 
readily, when the same kind of frnit carelessly 
packed, is comparatively worthless. 
It is not an unusual sight to witness in the New 
York market a barrel containing four or five differ- 
ent varieties of pears, about as salable as “ Mrs. 
Toodles Wheelbarrows.” Large and small varieties, 
fall and winter kinds, some with and others without 
stems, evidently thrown into the barrel from a bush- 
el basket, in the same rough way as is customary in 
barreling potatoes or corn. The greater part of the 
fruit packed in this way will rot before ripening, a 
fact well known by all fruit dealers, and it must be 
sold for anything offered, rather than have a total 
loss. 
Specimens of such fruit and packing can, at 
almost any time, be seen in passing through the fruit 
