. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT. SECOND AND FOURTH LAYERS Diagonal two-two pack, four layers, eighty-eight apples Northwest Special Box packed in the same manner as 72 and 84, except that there are four apples to each row and five layers to the box. Sizes 200 and 225 are straight packs, as 112, 128 and 144, and the same general plan is followed in their packing. Size 200 and 225 are five apples to each row and five layers deep. SECOND AND FOURTH LAYERS Showing diagonal two-two pack, four layers ninety-six apples Northwest Special Box The same general rules are given in the


. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT. SECOND AND FOURTH LAYERS Diagonal two-two pack, four layers, eighty-eight apples Northwest Special Box packed in the same manner as 72 and 84, except that there are four apples to each row and five layers to the box. Sizes 200 and 225 are straight packs, as 112, 128 and 144, and the same general plan is followed in their packing. Size 200 and 225 are five apples to each row and five layers deep. SECOND AND FOURTH LAYERS Showing diagonal two-two pack, four layers ninety-six apples Northwest Special Box The same general rules are given in the description of the diagonal pack in the article last season and should be studied, together with the diagrams and descrip- tions herein given. Sizes 41, 45, 72, 84, 96, 112, 160, 180, 200 and 225 are packed in Northwest standard boxes; sizes 54, 63, 128 and 144 are packed in Northwest special boxes. SECOND AND FOURTH LAYERS Showing a three-two pack, four and a half tiers, five layers, 188 apples. If layers are reversed there will be 187 apples Northwest Special Box [Editor's Note.—All of the illustra- tions. Figures 1 to 37 inclusive, were made by Roy C. Brock by hand, and are the best set of illustrations ever pro- duced, illustrating every pack from 41 apples to the box to 225 apples to the box, with the exception of two five-layer packs which are not yet in general use.] WE SHOULD MAINTAIN OUR COMMERCIAL PACK BY C. C. VINCENT, ASSISTANT HORTICULTURIST UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOSCOW, IDAHO THERE is no subject of more importance to the fruit grower at this time of year than the proper picking, grading and packing of his fruit. With the rapidly increasing acreage of bearing orchards and the number of inexperienced men going into the busi- ness, extra precautions should be taken in order to maintain the reputation we have already established in the packing of our fruit. It will be well for the growers to pay particular attention to the following points regarding the small package


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