. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. TRANSPORTATION 141 facts: (1) The box system is more cheaply installed and operated, and (2) the fruit is more easily cooled down before loading in the cars than it is afterwards. The car system of pre-cooling is so expensive that it can only be installed in centers of production or at the best shipping points. In such cases it is necessary to load the fruit into the cars during the day or evening. Fig. 105.—PACKAGES OF FRUIT READY FOR THE POSTMAN from each of
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. TRANSPORTATION 141 facts: (1) The box system is more cheaply installed and operated, and (2) the fruit is more easily cooled down before loading in the cars than it is afterwards. The car system of pre-cooling is so expensive that it can only be installed in centers of production or at the best shipping points. In such cases it is necessary to load the fruit into the cars during the day or evening. Fig. 105.—PACKAGES OF FRUIT READY FOR THE POSTMAN from each of the warehouses and then run direct to the different cooling plants. Here they are cooled down during the night, and in the morning sent off on their journey. This means that from 5 to 24 hours must elapse from the time the fruit is placed in the ears until it is properly cooled down for shipment. In the hot climates of the South and the West this has been found to be too long, a time. The principle on which these pre-cooling plants oper-. 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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