. Cirtus fruits under irragation. Citrus fruits; Fruit-culture. machine from a slight incline where it is held by pins as shown. The fruit then passes along on the belt to the other parts of the house. 36. Grading the Fruit.—The fruit is graded carefully before it is sized for packing. The usual grades are fancy, choice, standard, and culls. Only such fruit as is considered perfect, that is, free from blemishes, sound in quality, and fairly smooth, is sorted out for the fancy grade. The next best is the choice grade, which consists of such fruit as may be only slightly blemished and possibly n
. Cirtus fruits under irragation. Citrus fruits; Fruit-culture. machine from a slight incline where it is held by pins as shown. The fruit then passes along on the belt to the other parts of the house. 36. Grading the Fruit.—The fruit is graded carefully before it is sized for packing. The usual grades are fancy, choice, standard, and culls. Only such fruit as is considered perfect, that is, free from blemishes, sound in quality, and fairly smooth, is sorted out for the fancy grade. The next best is the choice grade, which consists of such fruit as may be only slightly blemished and possibly not quite so smooth as the fancy grade. Sz3 UllKUb fRUIT^S UNUEK IRRIGATION 27 but otherwise sound and of good quaHty; that fruit which is badly scarred and has a rough skin but is sound and of good keeping quality is packed as standard. Culls are those fruits which show an unsound skin, either from being bruised in picking or handling, and will not keep. In the packing house the fruit to be graded is usually carried past the graders on flat belts in such a manner that the men. can see each fruit as it passes, and as the fruit passes it is separated into the different grades. 37. Sizing the Fruit.—The fruit, after it has been cleaned, weighed, and graded, passes to the sizing machine, where it is automatically sorted to size. A sizer is shown in the lower part of Fig. 18. The fruit carried on a belt passes over a series of openings of different sizes, and as a single fruit comes to an opening through which it will pass, it drops through into a shallow bin. All the fruit in each bin will, therefore, be approximately the same size. The sizes of the openings through which the fruit drops are governed by the number of fruits that can be packed in the standard-size market package. 38. Labeling the Fruit.—A few growers make a prac- tice of pasting a small label to each fruit of the best grade for the purpose of advertising their product. In Fig. 21 reproductions of the label use
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