THE KADOTA FIG 



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Kadota Fig, 4^4 years after planting 



replaced by others who use their heads all the time. The fruit is too valuable 

 and the growing industry too great to be injured in any manner by heedless 

 pickers and packers. 



Carefully dry all figs too ripe for the canners. 



Eastern Shipping 



In shipping our figs to Eastern markets, we usually place from one to five 

 packages of 5 boxes each in the squeeze or brace of the car, where air 

 circulates freely and far removed from the ice. If the car is in motion all the 

 time the figs will stand 1 2 or 14 days shipment and have sold for fancy prices 

 1 7 days after being picked. Ten days is standard time to average Eastern 

 destination. During the war the congested railroad traffic caused the fruit 

 trains to stand still at times and the moisture-laden air of the cars caused the 

 figs to mold. Permit me to quote Prof. I. J. Condit, late horticultural ex- 

 pert of the University of California, now on the J. C. Forkner Fig Garden 

 staff at Fresno. He placed my figs in refrigeration last season in tempera- 

 tures of varying degrees up to the freezing point, and if my memory serves 

 me right he kept the figs not to exceed 7 days without molding at the most 

 favorable degree and others a lesser time. Had he possessed a refrigerator 

 containing a fan and circulated the air, I believe he could have kept the fruit 

 much longer. Probably 1 or 1 5 or 20 days even. 



