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The Principles of Fruit-growing 



Fig. 179. A peach packing-house for a 

 large busmess. 



erected in the orchard is often made to serve all the pur- 

 poses of a packing-house. A cloth tent is often used. 



The appliances 

 needed ia packing- 

 houses, aside from 

 packages and crates, 

 are trucks, sorting- 

 tables, barrel 

 presses, and an 

 abundance of bas- 

 kets, crates or barrels 

 for the refuse fruit. 

 Sorting-tables 

 are of various pat- 

 terns, but those used for apples, cranberries and other 

 firm fruits, consist of a table or tray about twice as long 

 as broad, narrowed at one end, at which it is open to 

 allow the good fruit to roll off into a basket or barrel. 

 The fruits are placed from the picking-baskets on the 

 table, and a number of persons standing on either side 

 remove the litter and the inferior fruit, while they work 

 the good fruit on into the outlet. Compare Figs. 167 

 and 172. 



Of barrel presses there are several styles. The most 

 expeditious is some 

 kind of lever press 

 (Uke No. 3 in Fig. 

 181), but more pres- 

 sure can be secured 

 with a screw press 

 (7), and such an 

 implement holds 



itself in place when Fks. ISO. interior scene in Fig. 179. 



