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trucking them to the local shipping point or to storage. Other 
erowers haul their apples to cover and set the orchard force at pack- 
ing as soon as the work of picking has been completed. They may 
Fic. 7.—Experienced help is needed around the sorting table 
use hand-sorting tables only, or they may have sizers, operated 
usually by a small motor, or they may use a combination of tables 
and sizers. A great deal of orchard-run fruit is put up in the orchard 
in barrels, baskets, or market boxes. First and second grades may 
Fic. 8.—Using sizing machinery in one of the largest and best-equipped southern packing houses 
also be put up with simple portable equipment, but grading is likely 
to be less carefully done than in packing houses. Little packing is 
done by dealers on the farms in most sections. 
