226 Cooperation in Agriculture 



Packers will not receive payment for their services until the 

 apples packed by them shall have passed inspection at the re- 

 ceiving warehouse. 



When the apples upon the packing table are not properly 

 graded, the packer shall immediately notify the Field Inspector, 

 and the Field Inspector shall examine the same as soon as pos- 

 sible and require the grower to resort the apples for the packer, 

 or shall pay the packer for sorting them, and if the same is not 

 done by the grower, the Field Inspector shall withdraw the packer 

 and place him at some other orchard. 



Field Inspectors must cover their respective territories, and 

 advise and consult with the apple-growers as often as possible, 

 giving them instructions for the correct grading and sorting of 

 their apples. 



Packers must not permit the growers to influence them to put 

 inferior-grade apples into the pack, but should always bear in 

 mind that a single bad apple may be the cause of having their 

 pack held up by the Inspector and cause both themselves and 

 the growers more or less loss and trouble. 



The Central Packing-House 



Another plan, and the most efficient of all, is to grade 

 and pack the fruit at a central packing-house owned and 

 controlled by the association. The growers pick the fruit, 

 haul it to the packing-house, and there it is graded and 

 packed by the association ; or the fruit may be picked by 

 labor controlled by the association, then hauled to the 

 central packing-house by the grower, and there graded 

 and packed. Under this plan the picking, grading, and 

 packing of the fruit of a community is standardized. 

 The nucleus of the association is the packing-house, the 

 manager of the association is the packing-house manager, 

 and the business operations of the association are trans- 

 acted at the packing-house. The association may build 



