Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . s? 276 GRADING AND PACKING 6. What for plums? 7. What for cherries? 8. Give a list of the equipment needed in packing barrels of apples. 9. How is the barrel prepared for packing? 10. Describe the facing of the barrel. 11. How is the barrel then filled? 12. Describe how to place the apples of the last layer, and head up the barrel. 13. What are the main points considered in scoring barrels of apples? 14. Name the different kinds of packs for boxes. 15. Describe the packing of apples in boxes. 16. What are the points conside
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . s? 276 GRADING AND PACKING 6. What for plums? 7. What for cherries? 8. Give a list of the equipment needed in packing barrels of apples. 9. How is the barrel prepared for packing? 10. Describe the facing of the barrel. 11. How is the barrel then filled? 12. Describe how to place the apples of the last layer, and head up the barrel. 13. What are the main points considered in scoring barrels of apples? 14. Name the different kinds of packs for boxes. 15. Describe the packing of apples in boxes. 16. What are the points considered in scoring boxes of apples? 17. What styles of fruit packages have you seen in market? CHAPTER XXMARKETING The greatest single problem in marketing fruit is to havegood fruit (Fig. 142). Beside this problem all others sink intoinsignificance. Given such fruit there can be developed amarket for almost any quantity. In fact, it will sell this truth could only be brought home to our orchard men,and if they could only be made to adopt such methods as would. Fig. 142.—The greatest single problem in marketing fruit is to have good fruit. Fruitlike that shown above, which wad picked up in the local markec at Amherst, will not tendto increase the consumption. insure yearly crops of such fruit (and there are methods thatwill make this reasonably certain), there would be little difficultyin anything else. In fact, the fruit growers millennium wouldhave arrived. Some of the things which seem most importantin bringing about this result have been discussed in this book. The next greatest problem is to pack it honestly and care-fully. This was discussed in the last chapter. The man whosefruit is invariably well packed, and who has the reputation ofgetting just as good, or a little better, fruit in the middle of thepackage than is on top, is never going to lack for customers. 277 278 MARKETING The discussion in this chapter will presuppose that the orchardisthas been measurabl
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