. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. PREPARING THE FRUITS FOR MARKET 35 All fruit that has to be wrapped and packed in boxes needs to be graded much more carefully than fruit that is shipped loose in packages; as, for example, apples shipped in barrels. Most of the mechanical graders for apples have appeared in the Central or "Western states, but within the past three or four years, some of them have been tried out in the East. Many are still in the experimental stage and while they are being
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. PREPARING THE FRUITS FOR MARKET 35 All fruit that has to be wrapped and packed in boxes needs to be graded much more carefully than fruit that is shipped loose in packages; as, for example, apples shipped in barrels. Most of the mechanical graders for apples have appeared in the Central or "Western states, but within the past three or four years, some of them have been tried out in the East. Many are still in the experimental stage and while they are being used more and more every year, it is stiU a question whether they. Fig. 24.—A GRADING MACHINE This machine weighs and tosses the fruit to separate compartments. are just the best thing to use. I am of the opinion, how- ever, that in a few years more they will be perfected to such an extent that all large growers of apples will use them. Irregular shaped fruit, like pears, or soft fruit, like peaches and plums, are seldom graded by mechanical means and it is not probable that such devices wiU ever be made successful. Fruit like strawberries or cherries which have long stems, do not lend themselves to me- chanical appliances, hence they will probably always have to be graded by 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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