. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. so MODERN FRUIT MARKETING. Fig. 73.—EXPERT BOXERS AT WORK IN A WESTERN PACKING-HOUSE the packing is done in a central packing-liouse, a little more elaborate system of keeping records is needed. This will be discussed under the general subject of co- operative organizations. Cost of Packing Apples.—It is hard to get a very definite comparison of the cost of packing apples in boxes or in barrels, but the following figures wiU serve as a guide for the different o
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. so MODERN FRUIT MARKETING. Fig. 73.—EXPERT BOXERS AT WORK IN A WESTERN PACKING-HOUSE the packing is done in a central packing-liouse, a little more elaborate system of keeping records is needed. This will be discussed under the general subject of co- operative organizations. Cost of Packing Apples.—It is hard to get a very definite comparison of the cost of packing apples in boxes or in barrels, but the following figures wiU serve as a guide for the different operations: Making cal- culations on the basis of three boxes equal to one barrel, the relative costs would be about as follows: Barrels cost from 30 to 40 cents; the pasteboard caps about 75 cents a 100; circles about the same; and the filling and packing of the barrel varies from 10 to 25 cents, depend- ing upon the variety. For apple boxes, the first cost runs from 10 to 15 cents, the setting up 1 to 2 cents each, box liners 15 cents a 100, layer boards 75 cents. 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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