CNTRAL PACKING HOUSES FOR NEW YORK FRUIT 



F. S. WELSH 

 Agriculturist, New York Central Railroad, New York City 



l'he enactment of the New York Apple Grading Law has raised 

 i i notion in the minds of many growers as to whether it might 

 l| be desirable to use Central Packing Houses in packing fruit 

 ,i i.nler to comply with the requirements of the law. With a 

 i|-w to obtaining information that might bear 011 this question, 

 1 writer has collected data as to methods of operation of Central 



eking Houses as they exist in the eastern part of the United 

 : ties and especially in Canada, where apples are packed in 

 l-rels under a compulsory apple packing law similar in many 

 i [xrts to the New York law. 



lit was not thought that all of the methods employed would 

 l)ve practicable under New York conditions, but it seemed that 

 I ere there was a great similarity in methods of production 

 bl in the kinds of packages used, the same principles should 

 .'] >1\ in Xe\v York State as in the other sections, and that at any 

 | e, since these sections were competitors of New Y r ork State, 

 i might be desirable for New York growers to know what their 

 kjnpetitors were doing, and planning to do, in the important 

 i tter of packing and marketing their crop. 

 If The Canadian Apple Packing Law antedates the New York 



\T by several years, and has now been in operation long enough 

 & produce results. Two very apparent developments have fol- 

 the enforcement of this law: First, orchard packing has 

 eused and a great many Central Packing Houses have been 

 in operation, and, secondly, the quantity of Canadian apples 



>orted has increased very rapidly in proportion to the total 



p. The second development, Canadians believe, is caused to a 



ge extent by the first. 



WHY THE CENTRAL PACKING HOUSE CAME INTO BEING 



The reason for the establishment of Central Packing Houses 

 a a general dissatisfaction with methods of orchard packing, 



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