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]ii<>li colored fruit for facing and packed and ring-tailed tlie three grades 

 of fruit diischarged on each side of the table. The fruit is discharged 

 Croni the canvas bins into the barrels through a bottomless bag which 

 is lowered into the barrels, in that way depositing the frnit without 

 handling or bruising. Gano a])ples constituted the bulk of the crop and 

 the.v were packed as follows: 



N'o. 2 Gano, 2^4 to 2V2 in. in diameter, free from defect. 



No. 1 Gano, 21/. to 3 in. in diameter, free from defect and good color. 



No. lA Gano, 3 in. to over, of high color and free from defect. 



One man faced all barrels. I single faced the No. 2 Ganos but the 

 No. 1 and No. lA T double faced. In second facing I placed the apples 

 in the lower face on edge. They pack closer and fit tighter this way. 



One boy head lining barrels and two men heading barrels, one of 

 whom assisted teamster to load full barrels to haul to car. 



We paid the following scale of wages: 



Boss of packing crew 25c per hour. 



Pickers 20c per hour. 



Sorters 20c per hour. 



( iirls l'''y2C per hour. 



Boy headlining 10c per hour. 



Boss ]>acker 25c per hour. 



Facers and headers 20c per hour. 



Teams 40c per hour. 



A careful and accurate record was kept showing date, day, hours 

 ()l)erated, number of barrels packed, total ])ay roll for day, cost per 

 barrel jjicking, i)acking and hauling to and loading on car. Average 

 nund^er of barels ]»er hour and cost of packing only. This sliows that 

 we worked 127 hours and 20 minutes; that we jiacked 2,455 barrels, 

 average 19 3 10 barrels ])er hour. Average cost of picking and pack- 

 ing, 321/2C, with average cost of packing only 11 8-lOc. On 5 days out 

 of 10 we were delayed by rain and on two other days by being out of 

 empty barrels. On 10 days we were able to make a practically uninter- 

 rupted run, working 8 to 9i/o hours. On Friday, October 16th, we work- 

 ed 01/2 hours and packed 240 barrels of fruit, an average of 25 2-10 

 barrels per hour. On that same day between the hours of 10 A. M. 

 and 12 noon we packed 02 barrels, an average of 31 barrels per hour. 

 The average cost for the day was 24c per barrel and the cost of pack- 

 ing oulv 7 9-lOc. 



On Saturday, October 10th, we packed 213 barrels in 8 hours and 

 50 minutes, air average of 25 barrels per hour, at an average cost of 

 24I/4C ^^ith packing cost 8\4c per barrel. 



Snnnning up my experience for the four j^ears, I wish to call atten- 

 tion to the way the crop varied each year. 



The crop of 1911 was very much the same as the crop of 1914 ; that is 

 to sav, some trees were well filled, others had no crop at all and many 

 of the trees had fruit on one side only, making it an expensive crop to 

 gather. 



The crop of 1912 was by far the cheapest crop to gather and pack, 

 as all the trees were well' filled and the fruit run very clean and uni- 

 form. 



