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MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 



ate is similar to the common cold storage plant. In the 

 warmer parts of the United States, artificial ice would 

 have to be used where cars are iced for transit, so these 

 pre-cooling plants are usually equipped with machinery 

 for making artificial ice as well as for the cooling of the 

 air to be run through the cars of loaded fruit. The 



Fig. 106. DELIVERING BARRELED APPLES TO THE RAILROAD 



expense of such plants for the car system runs as high 

 as $500,000 to $800,000. Most of them have thus far 

 been operated by the railroad companies, while those of 

 the box system are mostly operated by the various fruit 

 growers' exchanges. Owing to the great cost of the 

 larger plants they must draw business from 25 to 50 

 miles from the surrounding fruit sections, while the 

 smaller plants are equipped in connection with the 



