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POMOLOGICAL l'AKi\(Jl<APHS 



Packing and Selling During Harvest 



In the last few years, the writer has heard growers mention that it paid to 

 pack and sell fruit during harvest and that good movement of apples in the fall 

 is essential for a successful marketing season. The following are one grower's 

 conments on the subject. 



"We think that grading and selling during harvest is excellent because we 

 don't have enough storage capacity of our own. We have kept track of the markets 

 over the years and have found that we gain nothing, in fact may lose, by paying 

 for storage. 



"We are ahead financially in that we are short of money during harvest and 

 have to borrow money to harvest the crop. Why not sell some of our crop at har- 

 vest, if the price is as good as later in the season, and get our operating 

 capital and not pay Interest on borrowed money? 



"By grading and packing at harvest, we have a better idea what is going into 

 storage. We are getting a random sample because the fruit is brought to the 

 packing shed by different hauling crews from different blocks of trees. They are 

 never brought in by the same crew in two consecutive loads. We find out if the 

 apples are being picked too green. Sometimes you see. so many green apples, you 

 are accustomed to seeing only 25 per cent color. We grade for 50 per cent color. 

 Therefore, by the number of throw-outs we know how well the color requirements 

 are being met. 



"Grading at harvest is a check on the bruise counter to see if some pickers 

 are badly bruising fruit that she doesn't know about. Bruise counts are made in 

 the orchard on harvested fruit of each picker by a woman hired for this purpose. 



"We can determine the quality of fruit in the different blocks. For instance, 

 we had one block where the scab was severe in the top of the trees. By grading at 

 harvest, we realized that none of the fruit from this block should go into CA, 

 The majority of this fruit was graded and packed during harvest. 



"One instance last year we had four new inexperienced pickers. Our bruise 

 counter was sick; therefore, the foreman was told to watch these new pickers. He 

 wasn't able to check their fruit for bruises. Our grading crew found apples with 

 excessive bruises picked by this crew. By referring to the numbers on the 

 pickers' tapes, which were iittached lo the boxes, we were able to prevent further 

 damage from being done." 



William J. Lord 



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