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ber of a fruit pool is protected against 

 severe personal loss by the guarantee 

 that all members of the pool will bear 

 a proportional share of the loss for the 

 general protection and welfare of the 

 community. The system of pooling in 

 most common use includes the enter- 

 ing of all fruit on one variety into a 

 common pool, making each grower or 

 unit in that pool safe from severe loss 

 by the distribution of such loss to all 

 members of the pool. Each member 

 then receives a fair return for all fruit 

 of this variety when comi)ared to the 

 price received by all other members of 

 the pool. However, many still con- 

 tinue to return to Extra Fancy the 

 money received for Extra Fancies and 

 to each of the other grades the same. 

 Any loss which is received by any 

 grade is borne alone, with the result 

 that frequently one of the grades makes 

 much poorer returns than its actual 

 comparative value justifies. This is the 

 exact parallel of the non-pool system of 

 shipping for growers. If Jones ships 

 a car of apples and it meets with an 

 accident, becomes frozen or scalded, 

 strikes the market at a bad time or 

 meets with any one of a dozen or more 

 conditions which might cause the fruit 

 to sell below its just value, with the 

 non-pool system Jones stands the whole 

 loss. With the non-pooling of grades 

 the same condition exists. It is a com- 

 mon occurrence for cars to get in 

 wrong, and this frequently causes the 

 sale of Extra Fancy at prices lower 

 than the C grade. It is wholly possible 

 that the closing of a variety pool may 

 show the returns per box for C grade 

 larger than the returns for Extra 

 Fancy; this in face of the recognized 

 margin of valuation between the two 

 grades. For the interest and stability 

 of the community and industry each 

 grade of a variety should be entered 

 into a pool to guarantee that a just 

 value should be returned to each grade 

 in proportion to the value returns to 

 the other grades. With this idea in 

 mind, the Bureau of Markets recom- 

 mends the use of economic valuations 

 in arriving at just returns for the differ- 

 ent grades of fruit. In accordance with 

 this recommendation all money for 

 each variety should be pooled together 

 and the arbitrary difTerential in con- 

 nection with the economic values fur- 

 nished by the Sales Agency should be 

 applied in order to obtain the correct 

 value for each grade and break in size. 

 This does away with the necessity for 

 carrying each break in size separately 

 all the way through the books, thereby 

 eliminating much work. 



The next important feature in con- 

 nection with the packing house is the 

 building itself, which should be built 

 in connection with the sloi-age if pos- 

 sible. The material used generally con- 

 sists of hollow tile, brick or frame 

 building properly insulated. The build- 

 ing should be such in any case that the 

 fruit would not continue to ripen after 

 delivery to the plant. The size of the 

 packing shed should be about 10,000 

 scpiare feet for each hundred cars, witli 

 sufTicient storage to handle the fruit 

 after being packed. The equipment at 

 the house depends on the method of 



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