Show favor small container for market tomatoes the profit in early tomatoes grown for market depends a great deal on the type of package the tomatoes are sold in R E R lancaster says that rege vegetable table collecting trucks in southern ohio offered at the farm for 10 pound baskets of early tomatoes when 20 pound baskets were selling for albo in the columbus market the reasons why the smaller container sells to better advantage are straight sided small baskets permit packing fruits if you grant the tomato Is a fruit of uniform size whereas the 20 pound climax hasket basket necessitates small ones beneath and big b rg ones on top an another other thing the two layers of tomatoes oes in the smaller basket are divided by corrugated paper so there ts Is less damage in hauling to market A paper liner in the straight sided basket will help the price too |