BETTER FRUIT 



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records maintained. The forms for 

 these records have been carefully 

 worked out and improved from time 

 to time as experience has justified. All 

 tickets are numbered and must be ac- 

 counted for. Where an error occurs 

 in making out tickets the ticket nmst 

 be marked void and turned into olTice. 

 No tickets should be destroyed. Accu- 

 racy is the essential and must he dili- 

 gently followed in order to facilitate 

 the work in the oincc. When boxes are 

 made up at the packing shed a ticket is 

 issued for loose boxes, and also space 

 for entering up number of boxes de- 

 livered with cull apples, if grower 

 desires any culls returned to him; this 

 is in duplicate, original to office and 

 copy to grower. • 



The different forms of receipt tickets 

 may be drawn uj) in order to meet the 

 requirements of organization, in refer- 

 ence to break in sizes, etc. The first 

 ticket used is hauler's ticket, where 

 hauling is done by contract. This ticket 

 should show date, grower's name, num- 

 ber of jjicking boxes and variety, and 

 number of boxes reported different 

 varieties, where load is mixed. All 

 tickets should be numbered; white to 

 olTice, yellow ticket to grower and 

 onion skin to remain in book. This 

 ticket is issued by truck hauler to grow- 

 ers when load is taken from orchard. 

 On arrival at warehouse, the load is 

 drawn up on the scale and white ticket 

 delivered to weigher, who in turn 

 makes entry on loose-fruit receipt pro- 

 vided for that purpose. This receipt 



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shows on whose account fruit is re- 

 ceived, number of boxes, variety, gross 

 weight, tare and net weight, boxes in- 

 cluded, with space for remarks as to 

 condition of boxes, number of box test, 

 etc. — signed by weigher. This form is 

 in triplicate; blue to grower, onion skin 

 to oflice with hauler's ticket, and white 

 bristol board to go in holder provided 

 for that purpose and attached to one of 

 the boxes containing the test fruit. This 

 test is five per cent of load and is 

 picked out by weigher; one box for 

 largest size, one box for smallest size. 



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Cabot's Insulating "Quilt" 



More Efficient than Cork Board 



AS PROVED BY THE 



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Quilt costs only one fifth to one-seventh as much as cork board. 

 It is a cushion of dead air spaces. It is thoroughly sanitary— will 

 not get foul or rot, nor harbor insects or vermin. It is fire-resistant, 

 easy to lay and permanent. 



Send /or sample of Quilt and prices. 



SAMUEL CABOT, Inc., Manufacturing Chemists, Boston, Mass. 



( S. W. R. DALLY. Seattle 

 Northwestern Distributors ^ TIMI^S. CRESS & CO., Portland 



I THOMAS G. BUSH & CO., Spokane 



one for best color, one box for poorest 

 color and balance a fair average. These 

 boxes are placed together, in the space 

 provided in packing shed, where 

 sampling is done. Here the apples are 

 placed in special boxes and weighed 

 to get net weight of fruit, and sorted 

 and sized, and each grade and size 

 break weighed accordingly. These 

 weights are entered on sample-test 

 ticket, which shows grower's name, 

 variety, loose fruit receipt, number 

 picking boxes, weight of boxes in- 

 cluded, weight of boxes and net weight, 

 and the net weight of dilTerent sizes in 

 different grades and the weight of culls 

 in sample test. These tickets are in 

 duplicate and are turned in to the ofRce 

 each night along with the loose fruit 

 bristol board, from holder on sample 

 box, where it is carefully audited and 

 duplicate mailed to grower. 



Entry is made in fruit register, which 

 is ruled especially for weight system, 

 entering the number of pounds and 

 tenths in the difl'erent grades and sizes 

 of test, also showing net weight of 

 sample and net weight of fruit. At the 

 end of the season reconcilement is 

 made as follows: The total weight of 

 all fruit received within all grades and 

 breaks of the variety is divided by the 

 total nundjer of boxes of this variety 

 packed out. This gives the e.xact aver- 

 age weight per box of all apples of the 

 variety pool. For each grower's ac- 

 count the total of all grades and breaks 

 in the variety is found, and this sum is 

 divided by the average weight per box 

 obtained above. This gives the total 

 number of boxes of the variety to 

 which the grower is entitled. Then the 

 net weight of his fruit in each grade 

 and break is divided by the average 

 weight per box for the variety; this 

 gives the number of boxes of his fruit 

 in each grade and in each break of the 

 grade. The sum of these quantities so 

 obtained must equal the total number 

 of boxes to which the grov^'er is en- 

 titled. If the latter result does not 

 check with the former one must give 

 and take in the grades until it does. 

 Arbitrary weights should not be em- 

 idoycd in arriving at the number of 

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