140 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 



long hauls it was found that the quantity of ice required 

 and the extra tonnage on account of it, added so greatly 

 to the expense that various methods were introduced to 

 try to cool down the fruit before being shipped. All 

 of this experimenting resulted finally in the inaugura- 

 tion of several pre-cooling systems which are now ex- 

 tensively used both in the South and the West. 



Fig. 104. A SPECIAL CARTON 



This carton holds 100 apples and can be sent by Parcel Post in the 

 first two zones. 



At present there are two well-defined systems for pre- 

 cooling fruit ; one known as the car system and the other 

 as the box system. In the former, the fruit is loaded 

 into the refrigerator cars at the warehouse and run di- 

 rect to the pre-cooling plant and there cooled down in 

 the cars. In the other system, the boxes are run through 

 a cool room and the temperature run down before load- 

 ing. Both methods have given satisfaction, but appar- 

 ently the box system is gaining in importance over the 

 other method. The reason for this lies mostlv in two 



