. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. ages regularlyused for peaches, but three types are much the mostcommon. These are as follows: The Georgia carrier, or six-basket crate. Thiscrate holds six four-quart baskets. The baskets aremade of light veneer and are without handles. Threeof these side by side, cover the bottom of the lightslat crate. A light slat staging is laid on top of thethree bottom baskets as soon as they are put in, andthree more baskets go on top. The cover Is then PACKING AND M
. Packing and marketing fruits; how fruits should be handled to carry to market in best condition and present most attractive appearance. ages regularlyused for peaches, but three types are much the mostcommon. These are as follows: The Georgia carrier, or six-basket crate. Thiscrate holds six four-quart baskets. The baskets aremade of light veneer and are without handles. Threeof these side by side, cover the bottom of the lightslat crate. A light slat staging is laid on top of thethree bottom baskets as soon as they are put in, andthree more baskets go on top. The cover Is then PACKING AND MARKETING FRUITS 45 nailed or stapled on, the crate is marked with thename of the variety and grade, and the package isready for the car. The Jersey basket. This is a slat basket made inthe form of the inverted frustum of a cone. Inother words, it is a round basket with a flat bottom,wider at the top than at the bottonn. These basketsare made in various sizes, from 8 quarts to 32 16-quart size is probably the best, and is mostused. The baskets are sometimes covered with slatcovers, but oftener are simply covered over with. Jersey Peach Basket . mosquito netting. Occasionally fancy peaches arepacked in 10-quart, 14-quart or 16-quart Jersey bas-kets, and these are put up by twos in pony some sections of the country, -notably TVest Vir-ginia, this package is rather popular. The writerconfesses himself unable to see anything really prac-tical in it. The Climax, or Michigan basket. This is the thirdform of the peach basket. It closely resembles the 46 FRUIT-GROWER, ST. JOSEPH, MO. popular climax grape basket. It is made of veneer,with a stiff handle. These are used in various sizes,but the 8-lb. and the 10-lb. sizes are much the com-monest. These baskets are sometimes covered withslat tops, but oftener with mosquito netting. Thispackage has the advantage of going direct to the con-sumer with the least possible trouble to him. It is amore expensive package to hand
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