. Annual report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. Horticulture -- Nebraska. 180 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of it all the time but it is impossible to fool all of it all the time. Making poor grades is like firing a rusty gun. It will recoil, and to the grief of the producers as a whole. Not only the man who sells the poor stock will suffer but his neighbors as well. The man who insists on putting out poor grades can only be forced into line or forced out of business by a united effort on the part of the more progressive fruit growers to raise the standard of excellence, in
. Annual report of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. Horticulture -- Nebraska. 180 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of it all the time but it is impossible to fool all of it all the time. Making poor grades is like firing a rusty gun. It will recoil, and to the grief of the producers as a whole. Not only the man who sells the poor stock will suffer but his neighbors as well. The man who insists on putting out poor grades can only be forced into line or forced out of business by a united effort on the part of the more progressive fruit growers to raise the standard of excellence, in packing and grading, so high that in order to compete at all fruit must be properly cared for and handled. At the present time this stand^^ard is not high enough and the lines are not closely enough drawn. OLD STYLE GRADING TABLES ENCOURAGES POOR GRADING. The slant table where the apples are poured in at one end and rolled down the incline by sorters who worked on either side encour- ages slovenly grading. As a rule the grade which forms the highest per cent of the crop is rolled down to the low end of the table and on into barrels. They are kept from dropping too far and are supposed. Slant table in use. to be kept from bruising by being dropped onto a canvas apron which is gradually lowered as the apples pile up. This does not prevent bruising. An apple will bruise quicker by striking another apple than by striking a board. Only the grades which run a smaller per cent of the crop are handled. Some tables are partitioned in the middle and run two grades into barrels. In this way many defective apples escape notice no matter how careful the sorters may be. An apple will start rolling down the incline, the sorter sees one side only, it gets to the man filling the barrel, and unless the defect is large and stares him directly in the face, he also passes it on, and another wormy apple has gone into the barrel. This, added to the bruiaing, should be sufficient cause for discarding
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