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sweet pickles; others use a heavy syrup in "pound 

 for pound" preserves, while still others produce 

 goods which vary according to standards of their 

 own. The largest quantities are shipped in gallon 

 tins , in very light syrup, and when reaching the 

 eastern markets are repacked in the glass of distrib- 

 uting concerns. As a rule, the fruit is cooked to 

 pieces, which allows the seeds to escape into the 

 syrup, thus injuring the appearance of the fina] 

 package. Packing in gallon tins is done by cooking 

 just as little as is possible in a very light syrup. 

 The Eastern distributers prefer to buy goods which 

 contain no sugar at all, but such can hardly be ob- 

 tained. When thus processed, the original shape of 

 the fruit is unimpaired, and in the artful hands of 

 the repacker it is finally attractively displayed in 

 convex glass. 



