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such fruit goes into the hold of the ship as ballast 

 rather than in any other way. 



On the smaller boats for coast or river traffic, fruit is 

 usually loaded by truckers who run the packages down 

 the gangway into the freight quarters, but for the larger 

 ocean boats, the packages are hoisted in a net run- 

 ning from 5 to 15 barrels at one time. These are 



Fig. 107. EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION ON GOOD ROADS 

 FOR IS OR 20 MILES 



lifted by the donkey engine and lowered into the hold. 

 Where this is carefully done, it causes little injury to 

 the fruit, but where no special pains is taken, fruit can 

 easily be spoiled or badly bruised. 



"Water traffic is likely, in the near future, to play a 

 very important role in competition with railroad ship- 

 ment of fruit. The Panama Canal will aid materi- 

 ally in getting considerable quantities of fruit products 

 from the "Western to the Eastern markets. For perish- 



