. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. MARKETING NEW HAMPSHIRE McINTOSH APPLES 19. PUNCTURES FRONT OF TRUCK. Z 2. & OF TKUCK. 18 SELLING i EXPOSED 4 DMS INSIOAI ^^^^^^^^^^^^^!^^ Fig. 14. Additional Defects per 100 Fruits Resulting from Handling truck to the other, or from a truck into the store. Sliding against the wall was intended to approximate what happens when one slides a box of apples into a truck. The apples hauled to Boston and back un- derwent exactly what happens to much of the fruit sold from New Hampshire to wholesalers and brought back again in small quanti- ties. In t
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. MARKETING NEW HAMPSHIRE McINTOSH APPLES 19. PUNCTURES FRONT OF TRUCK. Z 2. & OF TKUCK. 18 SELLING i EXPOSED 4 DMS INSIOAI ^^^^^^^^^^^^^!^^ Fig. 14. Additional Defects per 100 Fruits Resulting from Handling truck to the other, or from a truck into the store. Sliding against the wall was intended to approximate what happens when one slides a box of apples into a truck. The apples hauled to Boston and back un- derwent exactly what happens to much of the fruit sold from New Hampshire to wholesalers and brought back again in small quanti- ties. In this experiment the fruit went down on our regular delivery truck to the wholesale house in Boston and was brought back on the same truck to our own storage, where counts were made. Some of the fruit was hauled down and back at the front end of the truck, and some at the back end. On the return trip, of course, the truck was nearly empty and the roughness of the road was felt much more. Samples were taken to a local store in Durham, and sold directly from the box during the following four days. An examination of the data indicates that pouring and refilling a box greatly increases the number of punctures and small bruises. On the other hand, dropping a box of apples produces a number of large bruises. Defects of this kind greatly increase the amount of waste. Usually one bruise will increase the amount of waste in an apple by at least 5 per cent. When the boxes were dropped twice, the amount of damage of all kinds was practically doubled. The damage clone by sliding a box against the wall is much less than that caused by drop- ping. Hauling fruit to Boston and return on the front part of the truck did not produce a great amount of damage, but hauling it on the back of the truck with a light load increased the amount of large bruises so that 20 per cent or more of the fruit was wasted. Exposing fruit for sale in the original package greatly increased the number of stem punctures
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