PREPARING PRODUCE FOR SALE 



The utmost care and skill expended upon cultivation 

 can easily be (and often are) largely discounted by 

 neglect in the methods of preparing the produce for 

 sale. This is all the more deplorable when every detail 

 has been closely studied up to a certain point, and then 

 when the critical period is reached for presenting what 

 has been grown to the consumers in the best possible 

 way, it is practically left to its fate. Where inferior 

 varieties are grown under the worst conditions, it is not 

 surprising that a series of mistakes is completed by 

 sending the produce to market in a slovenly manner. 

 But from the experienced and able grower something 

 different is reasonably expected. For years salesmen in 

 the largest centres have endeavoured to impress upon 

 growers the advantages derivable from greater attention to 

 this matter, and many have been wise enough to profit by 

 the advice given. As a result there has been a steady 

 improvement amongst all the most up to date producers ; 

 that there is still abundance of room for further advance 

 is only too evident to those familiar with the British 

 markets. Our foreign and Colonial rivals contribute 

 abundant examples of the care they have proved to be pro- 

 fitable, but though their methods excite admiration, some 

 home growers are frequently content to stop at that, and 

 continue unchanged the rough style of marketing which 

 has prevailed in the past. 



Gathering and Collecting Crops 

 The time and method of gathering produce from the 

 land will exert a material influence upon the selling 



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