The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-09-15

Iney can get along raster. his
know by experience Clean boxes,
clean, well assorted apples and wrap
ped with clean paper and each box
full and tight will sell for ten to TWEEN
ty-five per cent more than if put up
in a slovenly manner. No kind of
packing can make poor, ill-colored
fruit look we'll or sell we'll The first
requisite, then, is to grow high colored
fruit that will be attractive to the eye,
but even that kind of fruit will not
sell well if it is not put up in attract
i've shape.
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5. The growers name and his adj
dress should be stamped on every box
prefer plain rubber stamp to any
other form of marking. We use such
a stamp that reads: Yakima Fruit,
Grown and Packed by F. Walden &
Sons, Toppenish, Wash" This gives
our postoffice, our name and the part
of the country where the fruit is
grown. I think every grower should
advertise his own section of country.
If lived in Wenatchee or Hood River,
my boxes would be marked "Wenat-
chez Fruit" or Hood River Fruit" as
the case might be. Besides the name
of the grower, his address and locality,
would stamp every box with the
name of the variety and the grade.
Mark, say I would stamp" the box
with all these things-not write them
on the box Rubber stamps are cheap
and last a long time. l would do all
leaving the other blank The seller
Wi hi Fruit MI fho 10
end out and thus the buyer can see
at a glance where the fruit was raised,
by whom, and the variety If the
grower exercises great care in putting
up his fruit his name will be a guaran-
ty of the fruit being just what it pur-
ports to be. A man should never send
a box of fruit to market unless he is
willing to have any one know who
grew and packed it. The time will
come when we will have laws COM
polling the grower to mark his fruit
as here described. In fact, we now
have such law in Canada and in the
state of New York. I have seen fruit
right here in the Seattle markets that
don't wonder was not marked-it
would be disgrace to any man to
have it known that he grew and pack
ed such fruit. 1t was hard to sell and
no doubt but the grower howled at
the commission men when he got his
returns.
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The suggestion of W. N. White in a
recent issue of this paper that fruit
be cooled before shipping is a good
one. This matter has been under con-
sideration by the best fruit growers
for some time. The department of
agriculture is now experimenting with
plan to do this cooling by blowing
cold air into the car of fruit after it is
loaded. Some good can be accomplish
ed in this way, but the better way is
to cool the fruit before it is packed
was in mans packing house few
days ago. He was in the hop business,
but has abandoned that business and
has dug up his hop vines and planted
the ground to apples and pears. He
has turned his hop house into pack
ing shed. He has plenty of room and
suggested that he arrange one good
sized room as a cooler and he said
he would do it. Now this preceding
is not needed in putting up winter ap-
pies. They are usually picked in Oc
tober and November. By that time
the nights are cool and frosty. Last
October we had several times to kin
die a fire in the orchard on frosty
mornings so that the pickers could
warm their numbed fingers This pre-
cooling is needed with summer fruit,
like berries, peaches, summer apples,
etc.
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| am glad to learn that Prof. r. w.