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Fig. 18. 
await the attendant. 
handed packer. 
never used the burlap table because of 
the danger of the apples becoming bruised 
by dumping so many of them together 
and by their tendency to huddle in a pile 
in the center. This objection, it may be 
stated, cannot be urged against the sys- 
tem provided for handling the apples in 
connection with some of the sorting ma- 
chines, and in connection with the com- 
bined sorting and packing tables. Here 
only one box at a time is poured out, 
there is no pile of apples which these can 
strike in a lump, and a sheet of cloth 
held over the top of the box can be used 
to keep the apples from rolling from the 
box all at once. This cloth cannot be 
used in pouring upon the burlap table, 
because of the difficulty of extricating it 
from the pile of apples; while with the 
use of the machine or the combination 
table the apples are rolled along to the 
belt or other part before the cloth is 
again picked up. The shallow taut can- 
vas or padded trays from which the 
apples are packed in the use of certain 
Table and Bench in Use by Mr. J. H. Estes, Zillah, Wash. 
wrapping paper above the boxes, the shelf for cardboard and extra wrapping paper 
underneath the burlap table, the rack for lining paper attached to this table, and the 
front incline to the packing bench, to which the packer can shift his packed box to 
Note the shelf for 
The arrangement shown is for one right handed and one left 
of the machines prevent the heaps such 
as are formed by pouring upon the bur- 
lap tables, allowing the apples to collect 
only in a thin sheet; and these trays can 
be set at such a slant as will cause the 
apples to roll toward the packer, though 
gently and without bumping. 
Bench Type 
Packing from box to box, rather than 
from burlap table to box, certainly can 
cause no bruising from pouring. The 
packer must have more boxes into which 
to pack, however, in order to prevent his 
“pawing” at the apples, from four to six 
boxes being not too many in most cases 
where no sizing is done before the apples 
reach the packers. .Still this is no disad- 
vantage. The packer can pick up any 
apple as he comes to it, put it into the 
box containing apples of the correspond- 
ing size, and know that he will not have 
to consider it the second, fourth or sixth 
time in making a selection. However, if 
a machine or a combined sorting and 
