. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 140 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING long hauls it was found that the quantity of ice required and the extra tonnage on account of it, added so greatly to the expense that various methods were introduced to try to cool down the fruit before being shipped. All of this experimenting resulted finally in the inaugura- tion of several pre-cooling systems which are now ex- tensively used both in the South and the Fig. 104.—A SPECIAL CARTON This carton holds 100 apples a
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 140 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING long hauls it was found that the quantity of ice required and the extra tonnage on account of it, added so greatly to the expense that various methods were introduced to try to cool down the fruit before being shipped. All of this experimenting resulted finally in the inaugura- tion of several pre-cooling systems which are now ex- tensively used both in the South and the Fig. 104.—A SPECIAL CARTON This carton holds 100 apples and can be sent by Parcel Post in the first two zones. At present there are two well-defined systems for pre- cooUng fruit; one known as the car system and the other as the box system. In the former, the fruit is loaded into the refrigerator cars at the warehouse and run di- rect to the pre-cooling plant and there cooled down in the cars. In the other system, the boxes are run through a cool room and the temperature run down before load- ing. Both methods have given satisfaction, but appar- ently the box system is gaining in importance over the other method. The reason for this lies mostly in two. 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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