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ENCYCLOPEDIA OP PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



TaMe IIL Florida Orange SMppiBg- Experiments, Season of 1010-1911. 

 ATera^e Per Cent Decay in Eighteen Experiments in Setenteen Packing Honses. 



On At End of At Bad of At End of 



Arrival. 1st Week 2d Week 3d Week. 



Careful pick and pack • 0.7 l.| 1.7 2.0 



Commercial pick, careful pack 2.y 0.6 i-^ ^.y 



Commercial pick and pack ^-^ •'•^-^ -^^-^ ^^-^ 



In Table III the results from the ship- weeks. At the end of the first week the 



ping experiments with Florida oranges carefully picked and packed fruit showed 



during the season of 1910-11 are shown. 1-4 per cent, while at the end of the sec- 



The fruit used in these experiments o^^^ and third weeks, respectively, 1.7 



was obtained from 17 packing houses lo- ^^^ 2 per cent decay developed.^ Contrast 



cated in various parts of the Florida these figures with the fruit picked and 



r, ^ .^ _ ., packed under ordinary commercial con- 



citrus districts. The frmt used there- ^.^.^^^^ ^^ ^^^.^^^ ^^^ commercially 



fore was produced under a wide range ^.^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^.^ ^^^ ^^^ p^^ ^^^^ 

 of conditions, and the investigation was ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ j^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ 

 continued throughout the entire shipping ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^5 3 ^^^ ^^^^ 

 season. The data are therefore the result ^^^ ^^^^j, ^.j^^ee weeks 16.6 per cent, 

 of a large number of experiments consist- 

 ing of a sufficient number of boxes of Red Baspberry Handling and Pre-cool- 

 fruit to place the work on a commercial ^^^ Experiments 

 basis. A glance at the figures shows the This work was begun during the sea- 

 consistency of the general principle ex- son of 1911, and records from only one 

 pressed above. Of all of the series of season are available. All pre-cooling was 

 oranges picked, packed and shipped by done after the fruit was loaded into the 

 the Bureau workers, the percentage of cars. The data obtained were clear cut 

 decay was only .7 per cent on arrival at and are consistent with the general prin- 

 Washington, D. C. The fruit was held ciples developed with other fruits; they 

 for three weeks, inspections being made are presented as additional corroborative 

 at the end of the first, second and third evidence. 



Table IT. Bed Raspberry Handling Experiments, Puyallnp, Washington, Sea- 

 son of 1911. 



Carefully Handled. Commercially Handled. 



On With- One Day On With- One Day 



drawal. After. drawal. After. 



% Decay % Decay. % Decay. % Decay. 



Four days in refrigerator car 0.2 0.6 1.4 12.2 



Six days In refrigerator car 0.3 3.5 7.2 27.6 



Eiglit days in refrigerator car IJ 7.8 22.2 44.3 



Table T. Bed Baspberry Pre-cooling Experiments, Pnyallnp, Washington, 



Season of 1911. 



Pre-cooled. Non-Pre-cooled. 



Commercially Handled. Commercially Handled. 



On With- One Day On With- One Day 



drawal. After. drawal. After. 



% Decay % Decay. % Decay. % Decay. 



Four days in refrigerator car 2.1 9.5 5.9 16.5 



^?AW ^^ refrigerator car 9.I 19.1 15.4 28 8 



Eight days in refrigerator car 18.4 35.2 27.4 45.8 



It was impracticable to obtain the in- fruit were withdrawn after holding pe- 

 ^ection data after shipment to Eastern nods, which represent trips of four, six 

 points. The ra^berry crates were there- and eight days respectively. The con- 

 fore held in an iced refrigerator car at ditions for rapid cooling in the iced car 

 Puyallnp, Washington, and the lots of at Pnyallnp were considerably more fa- 



