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packing, for storing fruit for a short time after packing, 

 for making boxes, for storing boxes and box materials, 

 for headers or presses, for the sizer, and yet leave sufficient 

 room for moving about. The boxes may be made and the 

 materials and made-up boxes may be stored on the sec- 

 ond floor of the building, but this is practically all the 

 second story can be used for. 



As a general rule, the fruit should enter at one end 

 of the packing house and as it passes through the several 

 processes of grading, curing, sizing and packing, it should 

 move toward the opposite end. Sometimes it is possible 

 to have the fruit move gradually downward from the 

 point of entrance to the place of exit, and this is always 

 advisable, as it saves much hard labor in lifting and hand- 

 ling the fruit. 



Fig. 97. Packing house of P. J. Bayley. 



Fig. 97 is an illustration of the packing house of P. 

 J. Bayley, Largo, Fla. The building is rectangular, with 

 a lean-to on one side (not shown in the figure), in which 



