The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-15

ket in Europe great many of their fall
 varieties of apples if they pack them in
 the case l advocate, which is one that
 holds just about half-barrel I have
 had growers experiment with it exten- siVely, so that now it is admitted that
 1t Is quite safe to ship any of the red
 varieties of fall apples, and where the
 fruit is we'll selected I have been ena- bled, through my, agents in Europe, to net growers as much per box as that of
 a barrel, and for varieties that hereto
 fore have been too delicate to stand the voyage in barrels.
 This box is somewhat similar to the
 orange case! It can be made of any kind of wood. The ends and middle piece of the box should be of three fourths-inch wood. to be twelve and
 three-fourth inches long and wide. The
 pieces forming the sides, top and bot
 tom should be made of three-eighths-
 inch wood, and consist of two or three
 pieces for each. side, top and bottom,
 and in mailing the box together these
 pieces should be left one-four inch apart
 for ventilation. Any greater distance would permit the fruit to fall into the
 open space thereby cutting or dinging the same. The. two pieces forming the ends should be planed on one side so
 as to mark on them. These end and
 middle pieces can be made of two
 pieces, but they must be put together
 by dowel pins and glued. The rest of the box can be made of fine sawed lun-
 Der, and in mailing up, two-inch wire nails should be used. In putting the
 box together the two pieces of wood
 forming the ends should have the grain of the wood the same way, but the mid dle piece should have the grain of it in the opposite direction to that of the two ends. This makes the box much stronger, and less liable to break through rough handling The dimen- sions of the outside of the box when put together are twenty eight and one fourth inches long, thirteen and one
 half inches wide and thirteen and one
 half inches deep, and should be had at from fourteen to sixteen cents Most
 any sawmill can get these up for grow CTS.
 In strictly fancy fruit, the same should be wrapped with white or manil-
 la paper. So many of our growers of fall fruit have found it improbable in trying to market such in years past packed in barrels, and the long ocean voyage, but with the swift passage of steamers now to Europe and improved ventilation of the compartments, and the fruit going in this style of package
 l advocate, makes it perfectly safe for growers to forward their apples in it, and as our fall apples are ready to ship at time when most all kinds of small fruit are very scarce in Europe, there is
 an enormous sale for them, and always has been when they landed in good con- dition!
 My advice to growers is to give their apple trees of the fall variety more at-
 tention and cultivate them as they will find that they will pay them better than their winter trees.
 The English. people like a crisp apple. Such varieties as Porter's and Williams are not worth sending, but such as the
 Duchess, Alexandria, Gravenstein,
 Wealthy and the Fameuse (Snow) are
 greatly appreciated.
 am confident that the box will soon be the universal package for apples, and that the barrel is doomed. It is a
 barbarous package to use for fruit, as
 there is altogether too much fruit for
 one compartment; and much of the con- tents of the barrel is injured by the
 weight of that above 1t. The barrel is
 rolled and kicked about, whereas this
 box has to be carried or trucked. It is
 too small to be walked on it's ends and
 too large to be thrown, consequently it
 has more careful handling than the bar rel
 It looks as if it was going to be pro-
 fitable year for those who have apples,
 although the crop is not as large in this l country as last year, but take it as a
 whole it will be a fair one.--George A.
 Cochrane in the Burlington Vt.) Free Press. '-,~ .-s~