. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . 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 loadedt
. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . 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 126size. The remainder of the car may be divided amongthe 150, 176, and 216 sizes. Cars other than standard arediscounted from 25 to 50 cents a box on the marketaccording to the number of off sizes they contain. ^ For further rules governing packing, see Chapter VIII. 296 Fruits The boxes are set with two inch air spaees runninglengthways the ear. Each tier of boxes is braced inposition by a narrow strip running across the car and. Fig. 111. —Oraiij^c pttekt-rs at work. nailed to each box. As the tiers are set the slack through-out the car is taken up by a device known as a carsqueeze. A copy of the manifest card showing the num- Picking and Packing Oranges 297 ber of different sizes and their location in the car is tackedon the inside wall near the door. The freight is figured on an estimated weight of 72 the box, and is $ a hundred pounds to points onthe Missouri River and eastward. Icing charges areextra. Precooling The term precooling properly applied relates to thereduction in the temperature of any given lot of fruit beforeit is dispatched on its journey to market, in contradistinc-tion to the usual method of reducing the temperaturegradually in transit. It has been found by experimentthat when warm fruit is loaded into cars with ice andstarted on it
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