. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. WRITE FOR FOLDER Thompson Eighth and Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles, Cal. pint hallock, packed 24 to the crate. \^'here strawberry crates of 24-hallock carriers are used for packing cherries, hallocks should be well Tdled, shaken down and topped or faced so they will be rounding full. There should be no stems showing. LTse square pack. BERRIES Of all Northern fruit, berries are the most delicate and highly perishable. Don't try to market them fresh unless you have concluded to exercise extreme care in every detail in preparing the fruit for market. For strawbe
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. WRITE FOR FOLDER Thompson Eighth and Santa Fe Ave. Los Angeles, Cal. pint hallock, packed 24 to the crate. \^'here strawberry crates of 24-hallock carriers are used for packing cherries, hallocks should be well Tdled, shaken down and topped or faced so they will be rounding full. There should be no stems showing. LTse square pack. BERRIES Of all Northern fruit, berries are the most delicate and highly perishable. Don't try to market them fresh unless you have concluded to exercise extreme care in every detail in preparing the fruit for market. For strawberries use deep standard pint cups, 24 in a crate. Use only dry crates and cups. For other berries use shallow standard pint cups, 24 in a crate where possible. Deep pints will answer, but there is more danger of loss from bad condition on arrival if deep cups are used. As the fruit is packed to eat, the ap- pearance of the package is important. Keep your crates clean and bright. When handling the crate after being filled, set them down gently; don't drop them and don't allow your help to drop them. After packing deliver berries promptly on wagons with easy springs. Get the fruit under refrigeration at the earliest possible moment after picking. Pre-cool the cars as soon as possible after loading if a pre-cooling plant is available, otherwise use from 50 to 100 pounds of stock salt on the ice in each end of the cars after load- ing. Leave the vents open for first 100 miles when possible. Don't cool ber- ries in a refrigerator or cold-storage room and then expose them to a warm temperature even for a short time, as the berries will "sweat" and mold. \^Tlen you do cool them off keep the temperature uniform. It is best to cool them gradually in a cool, natural tem- perature in pure air. Pick often enough to prevent berries from getting overripe. Daily picking, in favorable ripening weather, is the only safe rule. STRAWBERRIES Extra Fancy.âThis grade shall con- sist of al
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