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great. It "will be noticed that even in the immediate shipments the proportion of 

 decayed oranges amounted to 26.1 per cent on arrival and at the end of three weeks 

 constituted 42.8 per cent of the total. In the delayed shipments, 67.3 percent of de- 

 cay had developed on arrival, and this was increased to 71.9 per cent after three weeks. 

 This is an extreme case, of course, and it is only fair to state that few houses in Flor- 

 ida were doing as poor work as this during 1910-11. The figures are presented to em- 

 phasize the contrast between commercial work performed under different conditions. 



Table XVI and its ac- 

 companying diagram (fig. 

 19) give the results of im- 

 mediate and delayed ship- 

 ments of fruit from a single 

 packing house during the 

 period when high decay is 

 usually most prevalent in 

 Florida. The work done 

 in this house could not be 

 considered as first class. 

 For the sake of contrast, 

 immediate and delayed lots 

 carefully handled by the 

 bureau workers were sent 

 out at the same time as 

 the commercially handled 

 shipments. The carefully 

 handled fruit, shipped im- 

 mediately, arrived in Wash- 

 'ington with 1 per cent of 

 decay, while the commer- 

 cially handled oranges 

 showed 5.1 per cent. The 

 carefully handled delayed 

 lot had developed 3.6 per 

 cent of decay on arrival, 

 while the commercially 

 handled delayed shipment 



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Fig. 18.— Diagram illustrating the percentage of blue-mold decay of 

 oranges on arrival in 'Washington and after holding for three 

 weeks, in immediate and delayed shipments from two houses, 

 1910-11. 



showed 36.9 per cent at the same time. After holding the carefully handled fruit in 

 Washington for three weeks, the immediate shipment was still in very good market- 

 able condition with only 2 per cent of decay, whereas the percentage in the delayed 

 lot had increased to 6.3. The latter fruit was still marketable, although subject 

 to discount. Both lots of commercially handled fruit, however, developed decay 

 far in excess of any market allowance, the immediate lot showing 25.6 per cent and the 

 delayed 44 per cent. ' 



Table XVI.- — Blue-mold decay of oranges in immediate and delayed shipments from, one 

 house, on arrival in Washington and after holding for three weeks during a period of high 

 blue-mold decay, December, 1911. 





Carefully handled 

 fruit. 



Commercially han- 

 dled fruit. 





Immedi- 

 ate. 



Delayed. 



Immedi- 

 ate. 



Delayed. 



On arrival 



Per cent. 

 1.0 

 1.0 

 1.2 

 2.0 



Percent. 

 3.6 

 4.6 

 5.3 

 6.3 



Per cent. 

 5.1 

 16.5 

 23.3 

 25.6 



Per cent. 

 36.9 



After 1 week 



38.0 





39.4 



After 3 weeks . . 



44.0 







