. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. FRUIT-PACKING OPERATIONS 59. the lace circle on top of this. It is well to use some kind of paper to keep the fruit from coming in direct contact with the wood, but the use of the fancy lace circle or more expensive cap is not customary except for the very finest grades. Sometimes customers request the use of these special packing materials, and in such cases they should always be used. Facing the Head.—This is an important operation and is accomplished with co
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. FRUIT-PACKING OPERATIONS 59. the lace circle on top of this. It is well to use some kind of paper to keep the fruit from coming in direct contact with the wood, but the use of the fancy lace circle or more expensive cap is not customary except for the very finest grades. Sometimes customers request the use of these special packing materials, and in such cases they should always be used. Facing the Head.—This is an important operation and is accomplished with considerable care. The packer will learn how many apples will be re- quired of any given size to make one layer over the end of the barrel. He selects sufficient of these from the grading table, being careful to get uni- form specimens both in size and color. They are put into a swing-handled basket and emptied into the bottom of the barrel. The packer then, reaches in and arranges these apples in a circle aroimd the bottom, placing the stems down. If the stems are so long that the apple rides over them, they are cut off by a special stemming tool. This resembles a small plier and can be purchased from orchard supply houses. There is considerable diversity in methods of facing barrels throughout the various fruit-growing sections, but most of the growers prefer to face two rows, the second row resting on the interspaces between the first. This gives a better appearance when the barrel is opened for inspection. Of course, it is understood that the end Fig. 46. A well-faced 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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