Factors governing the successful shipment of oranges from Florida . ng good work as compared with five picking crews doing poor work, 1910-11 and 1911-12. SHIPMENT OF ORANGES FROM FLORIDA. 23 Table VII.—Imperfections in the work of five picking crews doing good work as comparedwith five picking crews doing poor work, 1910-11 and 1911-12. Class of imperfections. Five goodcrews. Five poorcrews. Five goodcrews. Five poorcrews. Clipper cutsLong Per cent. .2 Per cent. Per Per Along with the inspections of the work of the crews and the indi
Factors governing the successful shipment of oranges from Florida . ng good work as compared with five picking crews doing poor work, 1910-11 and 1911-12. SHIPMENT OF ORANGES FROM FLORIDA. 23 Table VII.—Imperfections in the work of five picking crews doing good work as comparedwith five picking crews doing poor work, 1910-11 and 1911-12. Class of imperfections. Five goodcrews. Five poorcrews. Five goodcrews. Five poorcrews. Clipper cutsLong Per cent. .2 Per cent. Per Per Along with the inspections of the work of the crews and the individual pickers, anattempt was made to demonstrate the practicability of training workmen to use morecare. The workers of the Bureau of Plant Industry kept in close touch with theforeman of a representative picking crew, taking pains to indicate to him the scopeand character of the inspections which it was desirable for him to make. In TableVIII and figure 9 are shown the results of work of this character. The first inspection CL/PP£PCC/KS LOHG &r£-/<7S. a*£4% cuppspco /AP?y 20 %/./<& .5 §/.o% mm <?. s^ \ \ \ %/.z% ^ \ mm % «Z \ \SJ% .6% Fig. 9.—Diagram illustrating the percentage of imperfections found during three inspections of onepicking crew ranging from three to seven persons, showing great improvement. was made on January 14, when the crew consisted of four men, the average of imper-fections at that time being per cent clipper cuts and per cent long stems. Theimportance of careful work was urged upon the foreman and crew, and when on Janu-ary 20 a second inspection was made, a very material decrease was found in the per-centages of imperfections. The crew had been increased to seven by that time, andthe average of clipper cuts was per cent and of long stems per cent. After anadditional demonstration of the effects of rough handling,
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