. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. FRUIT HARVESTING OPERATIONS 15 the fruit is carefully liEindled, tlie bad or bruised ones will be \er\- few and can be easily thrown out when the grad- ing is done. It is now customary to place all of the fruit, as fast as it is picked, in either barrels or boxes and then remove it immediately to stor- age or to the packing- house. The western people favor the box (Fig. 11). If they do not care to take the regu- lar packing-box into the field, they provide what
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. FRUIT HARVESTING OPERATIONS 15 the fruit is carefully liEindled, tlie bad or bruised ones will be \er\- few and can be easily thrown out when the grad- ing is done. It is now customary to place all of the fruit, as fast as it is picked, in either barrels or boxes and then remove it immediately to stor- age or to the packing- house. The western people favor the box (Fig. 11). If they do not care to take the regu- lar packing-box into the field, they provide what is known as the "lug" box holding about 50 pounds each. Fruit is put into these, placed on a low wagon (Fig. 12), and taken immediately to the packing-house. It is then packed di- rect from these boxes, hence no pouring, or little handling of the fruit is necessary. The Eastern fruit growers are gradu- ally adopting the box method, and in a few years it is probable that the barrels will be largely replaced by boxes. However, the barrel can be used to good advantage, and is quite a convenient receptacle in which to move the apples from the orchard to the packing-house. As soon. Fig. 10.—TYPE OF PICKING LADDER USED IN THE NORTH WllSTERN U. 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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