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. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 48 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING maeliine. There are five different kinds of hoops used on the common apple barrel: The sawed hoop, the shaved hop, the split hoop, the iron hoop and the wire hoop. All of these are used more or less satisfactorily, but either the iron or the sawed one is recommended as making the strongest and best appearing barrel. Standard boxes are almost always made of some kind of pine or spruce, occasionally linden or cottonwood boxes are seen, b
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 48 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING maeliine. There are five different kinds of hoops used on the common apple barrel: The sawed hoop, the shaved hop, the split hoop, the iron hoop and the wire hoop. All of these are used more or less satisfactorily, but either the iron or the sawed one is recommended as making the strongest and best appearing barrel. Standard boxes are almost always made of some kind of pine or spruce, occasionally linden or cottonwood boxes are seen, but these are not generally satisfactory. t Fig. 32.—VARIOUS TYPES OF FRUIT PACKAGES MADE FROM VENEER On the Pacific Coast, a good many boxes are made out of red wood, especially for the fruit that is packed for the cheaper trade. Box material, as a rule, is cheaper, easier to handle, and for equal bulk compares very favorably with the cost of the apple barrel. Small fruits like berries are almost always in pack- ages made from hard wood. The small splint baskets are usually cut from veneer. Practically all of the quart or pint baskets and many of the larger splint baskets are made of this veneer (Fig. 32), which is cut. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brown, Bliss S. , 1880-. New York : Orange Judd Company
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