. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . procured from lithograph houses and are usuallydone in five colors. They cost about $ per cement coated nails are used which cost in largelots about three cents a pound. INIetal box strappingcomes from New Jersey chiefly in 6500 foot reels and costsabout $ a thousand feet. From 18 to 24 inches ofstrapping is used on each box. Most of the larger packing-houses use beveling machines for the ends and partitionsand box making ma
. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . procured from lithograph houses and are usuallydone in five colors. They cost about $ per cement coated nails are used which cost in largelots about three cents a pound. INIetal box strappingcomes from New Jersey chiefly in 6500 foot reels and costsabout $ a thousand feet. From 18 to 24 inches ofstrapping is used on each box. Most of the larger packing-houses use beveling machines for the ends and partitionsand box making machines for putting the boxes together. Both women and men are employed as packers, womenbeing most largely used. The empty box is placed on apacking stand which rests on rollers and has a revolvingtop. The hod holding tissue wrapping paper is placedover one end of the box. The packers stand beside thesizing bins, and wrapping each fruit in printed absorbenttissue paper, place it in the box with great dexterity andskill, averaging about sixty boxes a day. The fruit isplaced in the box in its respective order of arrangement 294 Citrus Fruits. Picking and Packing Oranges 295 according to the size. Each size of fruit has its own orderof arrangement and the size is designated in the houseand on the market not by the diameter of each orange,but by the number required to fill a box. Oranges Size Average Diameter in Inches 64 3 = 80 3i 96 3f 112 S\ 126 3i 150 3 176 2| 200 2| 216 2f 250 21 288 2f 324 2\ 360 2i A very high pack is customary, and after the covers areforced on and nailed the boxes are usually delivered byautomatic carrier to the car or precooling room. Onehundred field boxes will usually pack out about sixtypacked boxes. The cars vary in capacity, depending onwhether they are provided with collapsible ice standard car of oranges contains 3S-i boxes loadedtwo tiers on end and six rows wide and including sizes96, 112, and 250, and not over 20 per cent of the 126s
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