PREPARING THE FRUITS FOR MARKET 



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tions have designed a simple warehouse or packing-house 

 to which all the fruit is brought. There it is packed by 

 experts. This insures a much greater degree of uni- 

 formity and enables the cooperative organizations to 

 guarantee a standard grade or pack. 



Many of the Western fruit organizations have these 

 central packing-houses and it is from the success of 



Fig. 18. DELIVERING TEACHES TO A PRIVATE PACKING- 

 HOUSE IN GEORGIA 



these that their use has spread to many of the Eastern 

 states. It is quite probable, however, that this method 

 is better suited to the Central and Western states 'than 

 to the far East, because the areas adapted to fruit grow- 

 ing in the East are usually so scattered that a central 

 packing-house would not draw enough fruit to make 

 it pay. A large packing plant of this kind costs 

 several hundred dollars, and to be a paying proposition, 

 large quantities of fruit must be handled. 



Dividing into Grades. Before attempting to explain 

 the way fruit is graded, it is necessary to give a clear 



