. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. PREPARIXG THE FRUITS FOR MARKET 25 tions have designed a simple warehouse or packing-house to which all the fruit is brought. There it is packed by- experts. This insures a much greater degree of uni- formity and enables the cooperative organizations to guarantee a standard grade or pack. Many of the Western fruit organizations have these central packing-houses and it is from the success of. Fig. 18.—DELIVERING PEACHES TO A PRIVATE PACKING- HOUSE IN GEORGIA the
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. PREPARIXG THE FRUITS FOR MARKET 25 tions have designed a simple warehouse or packing-house to which all the fruit is brought. There it is packed by- experts. This insures a much greater degree of uni- formity and enables the cooperative organizations to guarantee a standard grade or pack. Many of the Western fruit organizations have these central packing-houses and it is from the success of. Fig. 18.—DELIVERING PEACHES TO A PRIVATE PACKING- HOUSE IN GEORGIA these that their use has spread to many of the Eastern states. It is quite probable, however, that this method is better suited to the Central and Western states than to the far East, because the areas adapted to fruit grow- ing in the East are usually so scattered that a central packing-house would not draw enough fruit to make it pay. A large packing plant of this kind costs several hundred dollars, and to be a paying proposition, large quantities of fruit must be handled. Dividing into Grades.—Before attempting to explain the way fruit is graded, it is necessary to give a clear. 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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