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Figure 5 — Fruit being gi aded and packed. Men to the right are grading. Men 



in the rear packing. Note apjiies in the air being thro\\'n by machine. Also 



note liuit is Ijrought to graders on a gravity carrier. 



where help is scarce, it allows you to 

 use more pickers in the orchard, and 

 less packers in the packing house to 

 handle your crop. A great many grow- 

 ers have sent testimonials regarding the 

 use of the sizer. Some of these will he 

 of interest to our readers. 



Mr. C. A. Reed, a prominent grower 

 of the Hood River Valley, has the fol- 

 lowing to say concerning his experience 

 with the grading machine: "Machine 

 grading has cheapened the cost of han- 

 dling considerably. In 1913, the last 

 year I packed without a machine, it cost 

 me approximately 16 cents a box to 

 handle through the packing house. In 

 1914, the first year I used a machine, it 

 cost 10 cents, and in 1915 the cost was 

 8 cents. In 1915 the labor was 25 cents 

 a day cheaper than in 1913 and 1914. 

 Packing in 1913 cost me (i cents per box, 

 in 1914, 4 cents, and in 1915, 3 cents. 

 A machine does increase the amount of 

 work a packer can do. Tlie machine 

 just about doubles the amount of pack- 

 ing. The machine I think is the best is 

 the Cutler. I have their 1914 model. 

 Their 1915 model is a very good one." 



The Pioneer Packing House of Hood 

 River, a coninuinity |)acking house to 

 which reference will be made later 

 under the subject of community pack- 

 ing houses, reports that a Palmer sizer 



with attachments for handling three 

 grades at once has proved itself to be a 

 great economy in handling fruit. 



Mr. MacDonald of Watsonville, Cali- 

 fornia, lias the following to say con- 

 cerning the use of the grader in their 

 warehouse: "Answering your favor of 

 the 24th, we beg to advise that we are 

 using the Price fruit grader, both in our 

 packing house at Watsonville and also 

 at .Vptos. We find the use of the grader 

 most satisfactory in the handling of 

 ai)ples. Not only has it improved our 

 ]jack for the reason that our apples are 

 graded i)erfec[ly as to size, but it also 

 enabled us to do the work far cheaper. 

 The saving in labor, however, varies a 

 gooil deal with the amount of culls that 

 are to be sorted out before the fruit 

 reaches a grader. On our first picking 

 of Bellllowers last season we were 

 making a saving of $10.30 a day by the 

 use of graders, as against the old way 

 of hand sorting and grading." 



Mr. Rogers, of Rogers Brothers, Wat- 

 sonville, also has some very favorable 

 comments regarding grading machines: 

 "Before using the machine we had only 

 three main sizes, namely, 3 Mi tier, 4 tier 

 and 4V2 tier. It is our opinion, how- 

 ever, that by using the machine we are 

 able to get better grading and better 

 sizing; also quicker and cheaper han- 

 dling. We estimate that it will cut down 

 the expenses per box from 2 to 5 cents 

 over the old methods." 



FiGURi-: 7 — I'l-nil l)cing nailed at end 

 placing box of 



of sizing machine. Note man in rear 

 fruit on clnite. 



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The Three Leading 

 Cold Storage 

 Warehouses in 

 I he New York 

 District 



THE MANHATTAN REFRIGERATING COMPANY 



Located on N. Y. C. R. R. tracks 



West Wastiington and Gansevoort Ivlarkets, New York City 



UNION TERMINAL COLD STORAGE COMPANY 



Located on Erie Railroad and D. L. & W. R. R. tracks 

 Jersey City, New Jersey 



KINGS COUNTY REFRIGERATING COMPANY 



Wallabout Freigtit Station, Wallabout Market, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



General Offices, 525 West Street, New York City 



T. A. Adams, President 



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