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BETTER FRUIT 



June 



fruit is afterwards sold by the dozen, 

 and the small buyer can figure approxi- 

 mately the number of dozens he can get 

 out of a certain size package, and will 

 offer them for sale at his stand at the 

 same ratio. On plums I would recom- 

 mend that all districts adopt a plan of 

 showing the number of tiers and the 

 size, such as 3x4s three-tier, 4x5s three- 

 tier, etc. This will show the purchaser 

 the number of pieces he can expect in 

 the top layer and the number of tiers in 

 the crate, and he can figure up very 

 quickly about how many dozens he can 

 get from a certain package. As it 

 requires some skill to make the proper 

 kind of a plum pack, and frequently 

 plums do not run uniformly, I believe 

 an attempt to mark the number of pieces 

 on a crate is a mistake. The trade would 

 prefer to have it shown, as I have pre- 

 viously stated. The same applies to 

 apricots. 



On pear packing I believe the most 

 acceptable method would be the tier 

 mark. The trade is not so particular 

 about knowing whether a box contains 

 an exact number of pears, but they want 

 to know whether it is a four, five or six- 

 tier pack. 



On grape packing I believe the pack- 

 age should state whether it is two basket, 

 four basket or six basket and the style 

 of pack, and whether it is paling or 

 bunch. 



Cherries — I believe the row pack is 

 preferable, and the counting should be 

 done on the end, and not on the side, so 

 as to make the marking and counting 

 more uniform. Some districts have a 

 plan of counting the number of rows on 

 the side, and it works against them for 

 the reason that they lose about a row, 

 because a ten-row on the front is about 

 eleven rows on the side, and the trade 

 buying for shipment is particular in 



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regard to the markings on cherries, and 

 they willingly pay more for a ten-row 

 cherry than an eleven-row, and the 

 grower might just as well get the benefit. 

 I believe that we should make a differ- 

 ence in the price on our large sized 

 fruit as against the small sizes, just the 

 same as in the orange business. Of 

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 just past, except in a very few instances, 

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ally understood. It would have been a 

 mistake to try and bring about too many 

 changes at one time. I think this com- 

 ing season we should consistently try to 

 make a difference in price on the large 

 as against the small sized fruit, so that 

 the grower who has the more desirable 

 sizes can obtain the benefit of the mar- 

 ket, and this will encourage more care in 

 selecting. I would also recommend and 

 strongly urge that all districts wheel into 

 line on the question of standardizing. 

 One non-standardizing district shipping 

 poor fruit will undo the good of many 

 districts shipping standardized fruit. As 

 an example, a car of poor fruit will be 

 rejected, a low price made on it and 

 immediately the wires flash the news that 

 the market has been cut, whereas the 

 market in general has not been cut, but 

 a lower price made to dispose of the 

 poor car, but many unscrupulous buyers 

 take advantage of the situation and give 

 out the impression generally that the 

 market has gone to pieces, etc. The dis- 

 tricts that have adopted standardization 

 would do well to keep up the agitation in 

 the districts that have not done so as a 

 matter of self-protection and advance- 

 ment of the business. 



In concluding I wish to say that I do 

 not believe the cost amounts to anything 

 as compared with the results obtained, 

 and I hope that this winter will see 

 many meetings called for the sole pur- 

 pose of adopting and improving plans 

 for standardization. Northern Califor- 

 nia will then be making for all time an 

 industry that is not only pleasant to fol- 

 low, but profitable in its outcome. This 

 question is of immense importance to all 

 of us, and I hope the plan of standardiza- 

 tion will be adopted throughout the 

 entire deciduous belt. 



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