36 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



(A member speaks of a grader that was bought on trial and kept. It 

 reduced the expense of packing.) Called the Schellenger. 



Mr. Farnsworth : Describe it please. 



Member: Tt runs on an endless chain connected up with a cog wheel 

 on each end, Avhich goes around carrying the pockets which gauge the 

 size of the apples, and of Course as this belt goes around they drop onto 

 the table. It is fed from one end, the apples going through grooves 

 at the end of which are little fingers. It trips fifty times a minute, and 

 every time it trips, it trips four apples. It will sort on an average of 

 300 bushels per day — all ordinary apples. Of course if they are wind 

 falls and have not been graded it takes longer. A hand picked apple is 

 easier, and the man at the hopper can easily grade them. We use an 

 engine to run it. 



Mr. Case: We had to go up to Ohio to find a grader. We finally 

 bought what is known as the Rurke, and we have used it very success- 

 fully on peaches and pears, but not much on apples because we are 

 organized the other way, but see no reason why it should not work on 

 apples as well. We had no trouble to run one hundred bushels of Bart- 

 letts through in an hour. It cost |60. They have a treadle and a 

 hopper that comes with the machine but we did not buy it. We put on 

 an automatic feed with which we could turn the peaches or pears on the 

 belt so they would not bruise. 



A Member: How do you size in grading? 



Mr. Case: Just as you want them. 



A Member : How big ? 



Mr. Case: Just as you want them. It is adjusted on each end. We 

 run through Seckel ])ears and made them in three grades; our Bart- 

 letts we made into only two grades. No. 2 or culls and No. 1. One year 

 after Ave got through packing we rented our packing house to a man 

 who was not through, and he run a lot of apples through it. You can 

 run Kings or any of these big varieties. We were very much pleased 

 with it. 



A Member: How many j)er day? 



Mr. Case: One hundred bushels ]»er hour of Bartletts. and on peaches 

 in an hour and fifty minutes, with thirteen women and four or five men 

 to wait on them, Ave run through 300 bushels. 



Mr. Munson : What power? 



Mr. Case: We have electricity. I think that the motor Ave have on 

 that is about Yq horse power ; it might be i/4- 



