CE.XTKAL PACKING HOUSES FOK FHUIT 



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The storehouse is erected either by a local buyer or by a cooper- 

 ve company. The type of building is shown in the pictures 

 d diagrams. The warehouse is so arranged that delivery from 

 gons can be made on one side and shipment by rail on the other, 

 The apples are hauled to the packing house in barrels, unheaded 

 loosely headed without grading, except that culls are separated 

 far as possible in picking. 



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FIG. 253. USUAL FLOOR PLAN OF PACKING HOUSES, 

 ARROWS SHOW HANDLING OF APPLES IN PACKINGT, 

 PACKING ROOM GENERALLY PLACED WITH SOUTH OR' 

 SOUTHEAST EXPOSURE TO SECURE GREATEST AMOUNT 

 OF LIGHT 



I The second type of Central Packing House is that in 

 le fruit is packed for immediate shipment to storage or market,, 

 soon as possible after being received, instead of being held at 

 ie packing house for any appreciable length of time. 



FIG. 254. ARRANGEMENT OF GRADERS IN PACKING 

 HOUSE WHEN APPLES ARE TO BE IMMEDIATELY 

 PACKED AND SHIPPED. ARROWS SHOW MOVEMENT 

 OF APPLES. 



In this manner small quantities of fruit may be packed in 

 nsiply constructed packing sheds without mechanical graders, 

 he accompanying cuts show a type of shed used for this purpose 

 i a Canadian Growers' Cooperative Company, three thousand 

 arrels of fruit being received, packed, and shipped to storage in 

 iis shed annually. 



