THE GARDEN.

Manawatu Herald, 22 March 1889, Page 2

THE GARDEN.

» Fkuit for the Market. As the season is now on lor packing fruit for the market, I should like to remind readers that a great deal of the price depends upon the sample of the fruit. Placing a very few small, uaripe or disfigured fruit amongst better specimens is a great loss to the seller. If you pack, say 861bs of good fruit with 51b of such, it makes far more difference in the price of the case than the lose of thtowing away the five pounds of bad would amount to. When it becomes known that a certain orohard sends always first-class fruit with no mixture, Id per lb. advance upon the pric* or ordinary cases is soon obtained, and that pays better than having a mixture. Of course, it takes a lifcne time to establish a name ; but it pays in the end, and the inferior fruit is not lost - it, can be put to some other use. Anoth r point, is to jtack po as to avoid damnge. Yjk must bear in mind that tbe relss.il dwiiei- has ofteu to keep the iruic u long time in liand, owing, if; is true, to his f'uruitndiug too high h price : but lever theless it is so. and fruit, if oven a litth bruised, so as nob to show when the case is opened, will look very bad after a while. Then doing it up m small cases is a great advantage, particularly whei; sent to an auction where the consumer may purchase direct. Anyone will buy a small pai eel of fruit he can easily lay hold of and carry away in his hand! wheu he would never think of it were the case la'ge enough to require a truck and he had to come again next dav with one for it. I know well how j uuch the retail dealer injures the ; trade, bolh to himself and the grower * ; by grasping at too high prices, and I ! fell that the evil is so great that, on- * less some plan can be arrived at to ■ remedy it, frait growing w jH neyer J : ' vioiper. Yet Imuit M| great fudi

■' „ -^j^L may be found with some orchardists. I have seen, again nad again, cases of all kinds of fruits containing large proportions of specimens which should never have been there. Borne * Ought to have been packed sepai^ ce i^ for what they were, and, a ' g rG a! many others given to the pigs.— N, Z. Farmer.