SENDING FRUIT BY RAILROAD. 95 
the highest market price can be readily obtained for 
them. It requires only a little practice to become 
quite expert in packing fruit in the way described. 
When baskets are used, they should be lined with 
white paper, and the pears laid in carefully. Shake 
the basket gently, occasionally, so that the fruit may 
settle, and fill the basket a little above the rim, then 
put on the covers and forward the fruit with as 
much care as possible to its destination. 
It is not desirable, however, to send fruit to mar- 
ket in small baskets, unless the grower delivers his 
own fruit to the dealer. In sending baskets by rail- 
road or steamboat, the fruit will be stolen from the 
baskets, and it is a difficult undertaking to get re- 
dress from such corporations for losses of fruit. 
