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THE RAISIN INDUSTRY. 



matched lumber or of brick or adobe, in order that the temperature may 

 be kept tolerably even and the moisture confined if necessary. The 

 sweating-room in the Fresno Raisin and Fruit Packing Go's house in 

 Fresno is large enough to contain 40 tons of raisins at one time, and is 

 about 50 feet square, while the sweating-room on the Forsyth vineyard 

 measures about 35 feet by 50 feet, and is built of brick in two stories, the 

 lower one of which is used for raisins, the upper one for storage. For 

 those who wish figures, we might state as examples of buildings, that 

 the Forsyth packing-house, which also contains a sweating-room but 

 not a stemming-room, is 120 feet by 35 feet, and contains besides a small 

 platform outside for the reception of boxes, etc. The Fresno Raisin 

 and Fruit Packing Go's building is about 150 feet by 75 feet. 



Raisin Stemmer and Grader. 



The Stemmer and Grader. This large machine is a California 

 invention. The principle on which it works is that the dry stems are 

 separated by revolving the raisins rapidly in a drum made of perforated 

 galvanized iron or of strong galvanized wire. Arj * t " ~" 



After the stems are 



