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NUMBER OF PLANTS FOE OKE ACRE. 



Sweet Potatoes- . . l x /« foot by 3 feet 9,600 



" ... iy 9 footby 8y 9 feet 8,100 



Strawberries 1 foot by 3 feet 14,530 



Raspberries 6 feet by 6 feet 1,210 



Dwarf Pears 12 feet by 12 feet 302 



Quinces 15 feet by 15 feet 193 



Number of Square Feet nsr an Acre, 43,590; 70 

 yards wide by 69 long, one acre. 



Standard Fruit Measures.— We haye long needed 

 standard measures for selling fruits and vegetables. A 

 "basket" has never meant anything positive, and the 

 artful way in which baskets have been filled by raising 

 the bottoms, etc., has been a source of much fraud to 

 buyers. The Fruit Packers' Board of Trade, at Balti- 

 more, Md., the members of which purchase large quan-* 

 tities of peaches and tomatoes, recently adopted a stan- 

 dard measure, as follows : 



" That the standard bushel for peaches shall be a box 9 

 inches deep, 14 inches wide, and 22 x / 3 inches long, in the 

 clear, with half -inch partition ; that the standard half 

 bushel for tomatoes shall be a basket 10 inches deep, 

 10V 2 inches across the bottom, and 15 inches across the 

 top ; and that the barrel for measuring peas shall hold 

 not less than 2 1 /, standard bushels. 



< An ordinary bushel box for apples, etc., is 15 1 /, inches 

 long, inside, 14 inches wide, and 12 inches deep m the 

 clear. The ends may be of y r mch boards ; bottom slats 

 same ; side and top slats r/ a inch wide by l / 2 inch thick, 

 allowing spaces between of one inch, more or less, accord- 

 ing to the description of the fruit to be shipped. The 

 boards should be of light material — white pine or poplar." 



Potato Barrels. — The Norfolk dealers in Sweet Pota- 

 toes sWp m flour barrels, with a coarse, strong cloth 

 tacked over m place of the head. This gives ventilation 

 and is sufficiently secure. 



