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1. Be prepared to pay a bonus to pickers who keep damage to the fruit 

 at a minimum. 



2. Hire one of your best packers to inspect random boxes of the pickers' 

 fruit . 



3. Set up a score card for pickers and post their scores so they can 

 compare ratings with the other pickers. 



Have you tested your packing house equipment? 



How good is your grading and packing equipment? Is your equipment causing 

 considerable bruising? Here's how you can find out: Select several boxes of 

 unbruised Mcintosh apples. Run these apples over your equipment, then count every 

 bruise or dent. Is there an excessive amount of bruises; if so where did the 

 bruises occur? 



1. Dumping apples onto receiving belt of the grader. 



2. In the apple brusher - cleaner brushes and buffer clothes may be 

 covered with wax which accumulates dirt that bruises or cuts tte apples. 



3. Fruit rolling down an incline and striking a sharp, unpadded corner 

 of the grader. 



4. During a change in elevation such as when the apples roll from the 

 sorter onto the sizing chain of a chain sizing unit. 



5. When the apples are spun into a rotary bin by the rubber- tube ejector 

 unit of the revolving wheel grader. 



G. I^/hen the fruit is transferred to a unit moving at a much different 

 rate of speed. 



---William J. Lord 

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 C. A. STORAGE SCHOOL 



A C.A. Storage School will be held Thursday, August 22 at the University of 

 Massachusetts. The morning program to be held at French Hall (10 a.m. to 12 a.m.) 

 will be devoted to instruction in the use of the gas analyzer. The afternoon 

 program (1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.) is to be held at Atkins Storage in South Amherst. 

 The afternoon will be devoted to the discussion and demonstration of methods used 

 to determine gas tightness of C.A. Rooms. Also, carbon dioxide scrubber and 

 breather bag operation and any other subjects of interest will be considered. 

 Present and future C.A, Storage Operators and others who may be interested are 

 welcome to attend 



--- Editor 



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