. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1907, ustry that auniform package be used. For foreign shipments, different styles of packages have been used, andothers are constantly being tested. So much depends upon the conditionand particular grade of fruit, and upon the available means of transporta-tion, and very much also depends upon the demands of the market to be 144 REPORT OF No. 16 catered for, that I shall not now presume to mention others than the carrierand a very g-ood package that is extensively used in some peach sections ofthe United States and Canada, shown in Fig. 12. Wrapping. Expe
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1907, ustry that auniform package be used. For foreign shipments, different styles of packages have been used, andothers are constantly being tested. So much depends upon the conditionand particular grade of fruit, and upon the available means of transporta-tion, and very much also depends upon the demands of the market to be 144 REPORT OF No. 16 catered for, that I shall not now presume to mention others than the carrierand a very g-ood package that is extensively used in some peach sections ofthe United States and Canada, shown in Fig. 12. Wrapping. Experience is teaching growers that it pavs to wrap prevents bruising and the spread of brown rot (Monilia), adds to theappearance of the package, and above all, it increases the profits. Trialshipments from Georgia have brought fifty cents per carrier more than forunwrapped. This is worth considering when the extra cost to wrap a carrieramounts to no more than six cents. Fairly heavy paper has given betterresults than tissue Fig. 12. Peaches fcr export umvrapped, showing three styles of packs. One report from New York stated that in carriers that contained un-wrapped peaches, 10 to 15 per cent, were bad, while only 5 per cent, werebad in carriers that were wrapped. Similar reports have been received fromWinnipeg with respect to peaches shipped there from the Niagara district. Wrapping seems to add or bring out the color. Mr. Hale says : Wrap-ping is decidedly the best caper for soundness and color. From now onhe expects to wrap a large portion of his output. Other growers in Georgia,many in other States, and the leading shippers in Canada, are doing thesame. In cold storage, the effect of wrapping is not so noticeable on peachesas on other classes of fruit, mainly because peaches as a rule are not storedlong enough for any advantages to be well marked. Experiments show,however, that wrapped peaches retain their firmness and brightness longerand are less apt to s
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