. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. PREPARING THE FRUITS FOR MARKET 33 which the work is done is comfortable and clean. It should have a temperature of about 60 to 65 degrees. This is ample to enable the workers to be comfortable and at the same time will not materially hasten the rip- ening processes of the fruit. Such a place may well be equipped with electric lights, so that when grading is done in the late evenings or on cloudy days there will be no chance for error be- cause of inability to
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. PREPARING THE FRUITS FOR MARKET 33 which the work is done is comfortable and clean. It should have a temperature of about 60 to 65 degrees. This is ample to enable the workers to be comfortable and at the same time will not materially hasten the rip- ening processes of the fruit. Such a place may well be equipped with electric lights, so that when grading is done in the late evenings or on cloudy days there will be no chance for error be- cause of inability to see blemishes or bruises. It has been determined by experience that the workmen will do much better work where all things are convenient and the room comfortable, than they will in close or. Fig. 22.—SIZING BOARD, 18" x 4" x H". cramped quarters. It is not possible to do good grad- ing or packing in dark, gloomy cellars or in open sheds or buildings where the environment is such as to make conditions uncomfortable. The beginner will usually need some kind of a me- chanical device for determining the sizes of the apples. A small board with holes, ranging from 2 to 3 inches in diameter, is often used. (Fig. 22). This is kept handy so the person grading can occasionally try an apple and thus familiarize himself with the different sizes. After a few hours work with this board, it can then be largely dispensed with. Where pains are taken, in picking the fruit from the trees, to dispose of badly deformed or. 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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