Heavy Loading of Northwestern Apples 



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even though some varieties have qualities that enable them to stand 

 abuse longer than others. It follows that when radically diversified 

 methods are employed with cars moving through identical climatic con- 

 ditions, some of the fruit is subject to undesirable shipping conditions. 

 Table 1 shows that heavy loading of refrigerator cars was not 

 universally begun until the week of October 19 to 25, and that the 

 heaviest loading occurred during the week of November 16 to 22, 

 when the average carload was 830.6 boxes. This was five weeks 

 after the heaviest movement under ventilation and well into the 



TABLE 4. Hood River District, Oregon: Summary of carlot shipments of apples from 

 Hood Hirer shipping points, 



[August 15 to December 15, 1917.] 



Grand total: 



Total number of cars, August 15 to December 15 

 Total number of boxes, August 15 to December 15- 

 Average load in all cars, August 15 to December 15- 



750 



016,520 

 822 



