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Figure 5.—Federal supervising inspector demonstrates to growers, canners, and canners’ 
fieldmen at an Indiana picking school how to pick tomatoes for processing to meet the 
requirements of United States standards. 
the U. S. standards at picking schools held throughout producing areas (fig. 5). 
In this manner, growers learn the requirements of the standards and are able to 
instruct their pickers accordingly. 
Licensed inspectors are usually assigned to a processing plant or a loading sta- 
tion for the season. Charges for inspection are placed on a weekly basis. The 
cost varies in different States, but in the early part of 1956, the range was from 
about $90 to $120 per man per week. Such charges include the inspector’s salary, 
cost of supervision, and supplies other than inspection equipment. 
Equipment for the inspection of raw products usually consists of an inspection 
table, scales for weighing samples, containers, such as galvanized tubs or buckets 
for holding samples, a slide rule or computation chart for calculating percentages, 
and various other miscellaneous articles. Speed is essential in inspecting raw 
products so that deliveries can be kept moving into the processing plant and 
loss of time to growers and truckers be held to a minimum. For this reason, 
considerable attention is given to providing good and properly arranged 
equipment. 
Tables for the inspection of tomatoes, for example, are usually constructed with 
four compartments to hold the tomatoes of various grades as they are sorted. 
The tops of the tables are also made so that they can be tilted for dumping the 
sorted tomatoes into buckets resting on scales. Many processors furnish scales 
with dials extending above the tops of the tables, so that the inspector can read 
them without leaving his position at the front of the table. 
In actual inspection procedure, the inspector selects containers from growers’ 
loads, believed by him te be representative of the lot, as they are delivered to the 
