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INDEX 



M 



Page 



Making apple barrels 50-55 



apple boxes 50 



Managing pickers 18 



Market reports for fruit 249 



Marketing fruit 152 



fruit by cooperation .... 174 

 Markets for fruit discussed 



159-165 



Material for fruit packages. . 47 

 Materials for insulating stor- 

 ages 95 



Maturity of fruit affecting its 



keeping in storage. . . . 119 

 of fruit at harvesting time 1 



Mechanical fruit graders 34 



refrigeration 100-105 



Mechanics of cold storage. . . 100 

 Methods of insulating stor- 

 age houses 97 



Motor trucks for short hauls 151 

 Moving fruit to markets. . . . 144 

 the fruit to the packing 

 house 16 



N 



Nail strippers 77 



Nailing devices for boxes. ... 76 



Names of box packs 69 



National League of Commis- 

 sion merchants 237 



history of 237 



purpose of 238 



Non-profit sharing organiza- 

 tions 175 



North American Fruit Ex- 

 change 230 



methods of selling 232 



organization of 230 



North Pacific Fruit Distrib- 

 utors 224 



first year's result of. ... 227 



organization of 224 



reasons for success of . . 228 



selling -methods of 225 



Objects of fruit storage 85 



Ocean freight for fruit 146 



Offset pack for boxed apples. 66 

 Organizing cooperative e x - 



changes 175 



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Package laws 46 



material 47 



Packages for shipping fruit. 43-50 

 for the various fruits. .43-50 



of standard sizes 46 



Packing apples in barrels. ... 57 



facing the head 51) 



filling in 60 



heading 02 



nailing the head and 



hoops ."is 



nailing up after filling. . 62 

 preparing the barrel .... 57 



racking the barrel 60 



use of follower 61 



Packing fruit in boxes 63 



house and storage cellar 23 

 house for individual .... 23 



for organization 24 



Pails used in picking fruit. . 11 

 Paper used in fruit packing. 56 

 Parcel post for shipping fruit 138 



Physiology of fruit 131 



Picking bags 11 



fruit with stems on or off 8 



ladders 12 



lemons and olives 5 



receptacles 10 



Piling apples on the ground. 14 



Pipes in storage rooms 107 



Points on judging fruit 273 



Pre-cooling fruit 139 



plants for fruit 140 



Preparing the box for apples.63-66 



the fruit for market 22 



Primary coils in storage 



houses 103 



Private car lines for shipping 



fruit 137 



Public storages 92 



Push-carts in the cities 222 



Removing the fruit from the 



tree 9 



Requirements of a good box 



pack 72 



for alignment 76 



for bulge 74 



for compactness 75 



for a storage house 89 



of fruit for storage 86 



of fruit packages 40 



