Heavy Loading of Northwestern Apples 



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ator carloads were as follows: Hood River, 777.7 boxes; Wenatchee, 

 758.3 boxes; Western Oregon, 754.7 boxes; Eastern Washington. 

 693.6 boxes, and Yakima, 663.5 boxes. Local storage facilities and 

 competitive transportation conditions to some extent regulate heavy 

 loading activities in different districts. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



The following recommendations are based upon the investigations 

 that have been made, as well as upon the results of methods used in 

 commercial practice so far as these have proved efficient and of such 

 practical value as to warrant their wider application. 



TABLE 6. Eastern District, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho: Summary of carlot 



shipments of apples from Walla Walla, Lewiston, Milton, Freewater, 



Mosier, Taggard, and Dufur. 



[August 15 to December 15, 1917.] 



Grand total: 



Total number of cars, August 15 to December 15 458 



Total number of boxes, August 15 to December 15 365,598 



Average load in all cars, August 15 to December 15 798.2 



