SHIPMENT OF RED RASPBERRIES. 



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types of wagons and carts used for hauling berries to the cannery 

 and receiving stations. Deliveries are made oftentimes three or more 

 times a day from near-by growers, but usually only once by the more 

 distant ones. Every grower aims to bring all the berries picked during 

 the day to the receiving stations in time to be loaded into the refrig- 

 erator cars for shipment on the evening of that day. Each grower 

 is known by a certain number, which must be stamped on all shipping 

 crates brought in, and all berries delivered are credited to his num- 

 ber, shipping berries by number of crates and canning berries by 

 weight. 



Via. 12. — A receiving shed at Puyallup, Wash., where berries are sorted by cups into 

 shipping and canning cralcs. 



These practices are expensive of time and equipment and suggest 



tin- need of n cooperative plan for hauling the product. It would 



seem practicable to devise an effective plan which would conserve 



the time of tin- grower us well us simplify the work at the receiving 



on. 



GRADING. 



Berries intended for shipmenl are inspected before they are Loaded 



into the car and are separated into various grades, the grading being 



I on their degree of maturity, firmness, and the care shown in 



