. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 16 BULLETIN 5l9, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. counts were made of the broken crates in the storage house, and it was found that at least 25 per cent needed to be repaired or remade before being shipped from the storage house to the market; in fact, in one instance a carload of 168 crates had to be repacked before being shipped to market, and 125 new crates were required. The condition of these crates when they reached the storage house is indi- cated in figure 6. It can readily be understood that these crates would
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 16 BULLETIN 5l9, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. counts were made of the broken crates in the storage house, and it was found that at least 25 per cent needed to be repaired or remade before being shipped from the storage house to the market; in fact, in one instance a carload of 168 crates had to be repacked before being shipped to market, and 125 new crates were required. The condition of these crates when they reached the storage house is indi- cated in figure 6. It can readily be understood that these crates would be in a much worse condition after being handled three or four times at the storage house and at least twice more en route to market. They did not, however, survive the handling at the storage Pig. 6.—Celery in a refrigerator car as it reached the storage house. 'Note the broken crates and poor method of loading. This celery was repacked before being shipped to market and 125 new crates were used. The partition crate gave nearly as good results as the 14 and 16 inch crates as far as the keeping quality of the celery was concerned, but there is the same objection to it as to the standard crate in that it is heavy and unwieldy to handle. A crate which is nearly square and weighs 125 pounds or more when full is hard to handle, and this is one reason why so many slats are broken in loading and unloading the filled crates. One crate is often dropped with considerable force on another crate, which results in the breaking of the top slats of the one or the bottom slats of the other. In lifting the large crates by their top slats the slats are often broken or pulled off. A broken crate does not stack well in a car or in the storage house, often tipping. 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 Unit
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