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HARVESTING, STORING, AND MARKETING 



(/) Packing in Western Boxes. The box has become the 

 standard package for apples. In the West and in British 

 Columbia it has been the universal package for many years. 



Fig. 15. (a) A western New York community packing house. The fruit 

 is received at the left, packed through the house, and loaded on a railroad 

 siding at the right. Two doors for unloading or for removing culls are 

 available around the left corner. The lighting arrangement for packing 

 is very poor, (b) This is a Marjdand packing house. The packed fruit 

 goes onto cars at a lower level on the right. The lighting is excellent. 

 A storage for packages is just out of the picture on the left. 



A large measure of attention to individual trees reduces 

 to a minimum the proportion of fruit that is medium or below 

 in size, color and perfection, and increases correspondingly the 

 proportion of high-grade fruit. This does not mean that culls 



