SHIPMENT OF RED RASPBERRIES. 21 



1911 it was found impracticable to make shipments, and therefore 

 all lots were held in a fully iced refrigerator car, from which fruit 

 was withdrawn after lapses of time representing transit periods of 

 four, six, and eight days, respectively. The percentages of decay 

 were determined by carefully separating the moldy and soft berries 

 from the sound ones, the percentages being based on actual weights 

 of moldy, soft, and sound berries. 



RESULTS OF THE HOLDING TESTS IN 1911. 



The carefully handled berries held in a car for four days developed 

 only 0.1 per cent of decay, while the commercially handled compar- 

 able lots developed an average of 4.6 per cent of decay. The berries 

 held six days in a car developed even more striking differences, the 



CAREFUL 

 HANDLING 



P£R C£/VT OSCAY 



ORDINARY 

 COMMERCIAL HANDLING 



/W CENT DECAY 

 • o 1 s ,o ti jo a x> » « -a so 



1 



1 FOUR DAYS IN CAR 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 



| 4 ON WITHDRAWAL 4.6 Bfli 



L!J 1.0 ONE DAY LATER 17.5 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 



SIX DAYS IN CAR 



| OZ ON WITHDRAWAL 9.9 BBBBBH 



! 38 ONE DAY LATER 31.9 ||||;|!|.": i "''•"'» TT^IilllllClllliliillUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIII 



EIGHT DAYS IN CAR 





[ 18.! ONE DAY LATER 47.6 ||l|||l!||!|]|j||||!|||j|!||l||l||||||||l|||i||| 





Fi<j. IT. — Diagram illustrating the percentage of decay in carefully handled and com- 

 mercially handled red raspberries held in an iced car at Puyallup, Wash., for four, 

 six, and eight days, on withdrawal and one day later, season of 1911. 



carefully handled 0.2 per cent and the commercially handled 9.9 

 per cent of decay. At the end of eight days the carefully handled 

 fruit ha/1 developed but 2.2 per cent of decay as against 26.7 in that 

 commercially handled, or only one-twelfth as much. At the end of 

 eight days the carefully handled fruit had developed only half as 

 jiiiiHi decay as that commercially handled in the car but four days. 

 Figure 17 and Table I show the differences in decay due to differences 

 in handling methods. Included under the term " decay " as used here 

 are both sofi and moldy berries, ruder the first designation are 

 included berries entirely too soii and mushy to be marketable for any 

 purpose, b'lt show Lng n<> mold. 



The development of less decay in the fruit, held in the car six days 



than iii that held for hut four day.-; is an apparent inconsistency, but 



it is easily accounted l>>r when one takes into consideration the fact 

 that different lots of fruii mu I nece arily be used at each inspection. 



