6 BULLETIN 590, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



THE ESTIMATE AND ORDER REGISTER. 



The estimate and order register (Form 7) is used to very good 

 advantage as a record of the unsold fruit in a district, based upon 

 the estimates of each grower's tonnage. 



The left-hand side of the form presents a record of the growers' 

 estimates, and the right-hand side, a list of the orders which have been 

 accepted for future delivery and of " tramp" shipments or " rollers." 



THE TRUCK TICKET. 



A number of organizations employ auto trucks for hauling the 

 growers' fruit to the packing houses. The truck tickets (Form 8) 

 are used as memorandum receipts to record the number of boxes 

 of loose fruit intrusted to the truckman for delivery to the organi- 

 zation. They also provide a record of the hauling performed by the 

 truck. They are made in triplicate. The triplicate copies are given 

 to the growers, the onion-skin duplicates remain in the book for the 

 truckman's record, and the originals are turned in at the office. 



THE LOOSE-FRUIT RECEIPT. 



The loose-fruit receipts (Form 9) are made in triplicate. The 

 original copies are given to the growers, the duplicates are sent to 

 the office, and the triplicate cardboards follow the loads through the 

 packing house. A small tin holder is affixed to one of the boxes in 

 which the triplicate loose-fruit receipt is inserted. This serves as a 

 means of identification of the particular lot until packed. 



THE TALLY SHEET. 



The packed boxes of fruit are tallied before entering the warehouse 

 on the tally sheet (Form 10). The sheet is used both for tallying 

 the boxes of fruit conveyed from the packing house to the warehouse, 

 and for that received packed from the growers. Columns have been 

 provided on the check sheet for an eight-way grouping of the sizes. 

 A summary at the end of the day of the number of boxes of each size 

 group of the three grades serves as a basis for the inventory of the 

 stock on hand, showing the number of boxes which entered the 

 warehouse. 



THE PACKED-FRUIT RECEIPT. 



Great care should be exercised in the tallying of the fruit and the 

 writing of the packed-fruit receipts (Form 11), as the receipts are the 

 original entries of the number of boxes to be credited to the growers' 

 accounts, and on these figures all future computations are based. The 

 receipts are made in duplicate. The originals are retained for the 

 office files and the duplicates are given to the growers. 



THE REGISTER OF RECEIPTS. 



Accounts are opened in the register of receipts (Form 12) under 

 the names of the growers in alphabetical order to facilitate reference. 



