. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 5—Fruit being gi aded and packed. Men to the right are grading. Men in the rear packing. Note apjiies in the air being thro\\'n by machine. Also note liuit is Ijrought to graders on a gravity carrier. where help is scarce, it allows you to use more pickers in the orchard, and less packers in the packing house to handle your crop. A great many grow- ers have sent testimonials regarding the use of the sizer. Some of these will he of interest to our readers. Mr. C. A. Reed, a prominent grower of the Hood River Valley, has the fol- lowing to say concerning his
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Figure 5—Fruit being gi aded and packed. Men to the right are grading. Men in the rear packing. Note apjiies in the air being thro\\'n by machine. Also note liuit is Ijrought to graders on a gravity carrier. where help is scarce, it allows you to use more pickers in the orchard, and less packers in the packing house to handle your crop. A great many grow- ers have sent testimonials regarding the use of the sizer. Some of these will he of interest to our readers. Mr. C. A. Reed, a prominent grower of the Hood River Valley, has the fol- lowing to say concerning his experience with the grading machine: "Machine grading has cheapened the cost of han- dling considerably. In 1913, the last year I packed without a machine, it cost me approximately 16 cents a box to handle through the packing house. In 1914, the first year I used a machine, it cost 10 cents, and in 1915 the cost was 8 cents. In 1915 the labor was 25 cents a day cheaper than in 1913 and 1914. Packing in 1913 cost me (i cents per box, in 1914, 4 cents, and in 1915, 3 cents. A machine does increase the amount of work a packer can do. Tlie machine just about doubles the amount of pack- ing. The machine I think is the best is the Cutler. I have their 1914 model. Their 1915 model is a very good ; The Pioneer Packing House of Hood River, a coninuinity |)acking house to which reference will be made later under the subject of community pack- ing houses, reports that a Palmer sizer with attachments for handling three grades at once has proved itself to be a great economy in handling fruit. Mr. MacDonald of Watsonville, Cali- fornia, lias the following to say con- cerning the use of the grader in their warehouse: "Answering your favor of the 24th, we beg to advise that we are using the Price fruit grader, both in our packing house at Watsonville and also at .Vptos. We find the use of the grader most satisfactory in the handling of ai)ples. Not only has it improved ou
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