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Massachusetts for Internal Revenue Service Document No. 5174. 



If you don't do your own return, you should get these two bulletins for 

 your income tax accountant. 



Lawrence D. Rhoades 



Extension Sepcialist in 

 Farm Management 



I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 



APPLES WERE DAMAGED IN NINETEEN DIFFERENT WAYS BETWEEN GROWER PACKING 



SHEDS AND RETAIL STORE COUNTERS 



There were nearly six times as many bruises and twice as many broken skin 

 injuries on apples on the retail store counters than on apples as they left 

 the packing shed according to a study of retail store servicing made by 

 W. J. Lord and F. E. Cole in the late fall of last year. Only damage which 

 placed the apples below specified grade was counted. 



Observations were recorded in regard to color, broken skin, bruises, pest 

 damage, russet, rot and miscellaneous reasons for lower quality. Records of 

 damage due to pest, russet and miscellaneous were low and remarkably close 

 considering that records were necessarily made on different lots. Some rot 

 was found in bagged apples. The increased damage was in broken skin and 

 bruises. The record is as follows: 



Below Specified Grade Damage to Apples at Growers Packing Sheds 

 and in Retail Stores Based Upon Examination of 150 Lots oc" Apples 



November and December 1959 



