. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. TRANSPORTATION 139 parcel post become of sufficient importance to be of great value in distributing farm produce. For the past 15 years efforts have been made to produce a workable parcel post system, and have been defeated in almost every case up to 1912 when a biU was passed by Con- gress inaugurating its use on a limited scale. It has. Fig. 103.—APPLES BY PARCEL POST since been extended, until at the present time it is pos- sible to ship in quantities as lar
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. TRANSPORTATION 139 parcel post become of sufficient importance to be of great value in distributing farm produce. For the past 15 years efforts have been made to produce a workable parcel post system, and have been defeated in almost every case up to 1912 when a biU was passed by Con- gress inaugurating its use on a limited scale. It has. Fig. 103.—APPLES BY PARCEL POST since been extended, until at the present time it is pos- sible to ship in quantities as large as 50 pounds in the first and second zones through the medium of the parcel post. Pre-cooling of Fruit.—^AU of the more perishable fruits that are usually shipped in refrigerator cars must be kept cool by the use of ice while in transit. Espe- ciallj^ is this true of the fruits shipped from the South- ern or Western states to the Eastern markets. On the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brown, Bliss S. , 1880-. New York : Orange Judd Company
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