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same vine; the more uniform in all respects the fruit in a package is the more attractive and salable it becomes. There is no fruit where careful grading
FIG.
FLORIDA TOMATOES PROPERLY WRAPPED FOR LONG
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SHIPMENT (Photo by courtesy of American Agriculturist)
and packing have more influence on the price
it
will
command.
know
of a certain noted peach-grower in northern Michigan who grew, each year, some 2 to 5 acres of tomatoes for the Chicago market. It was his cusI
tom fruit,
to pick out
putting
it
about one-tenth of the best of the into
small
and
attractively
labeled