HANDLING AND SHIPPING FEESH CHERRIES AND PEUNES. 
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house may be as serious as two or more days during periods of rather 
low temperatures. 
Table V. — Decay in commercially handled nonprecooled prunes immediately 
loaded and in those delayed two days before loading, Willamette Valley, 
season of 1911. 
Time in iced car. 
Time factors and extent of decay (per 
cent). 
On withdrawal. 
Immedi- 
ate. 
Delayed. 
Six days after with- 
drawal. 
Immedi- 
ate. 
Delayed. 
10 days 
15 days 
20 days 
3.7 
6.4 
5.8 
4.0 
9.4 
16.1 
18.3 
19.6 
16.0 
18.1 
21.6 
Table VI and figure 6 present a comparison of immediate and 
delayed shipments of carefully handled prunes during the seasons 
of 1911 and 1913. The results in the carefully handled lots during 
IMMEDIATE 
LOADING 
DELAYED TWO DAYS 
BEFORE LOADING 
20 16 IO 5 o 
DAYS IN ICED CAR 
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1913 
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1913 
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Fig. 6. — Diagram illustrating the percentages of decay in carefully handled nonprecooled 
prunes immediately loaded and those delayed two days in the warehouse before loading, 
Salem, Oreg., 1911 and 1913. 
1911 are entirely consistent with the data given in Table V for the 
commercially handled prunes, the delayed lots uniformly showing 
more decay than those in the immediately loaded or shipped lots. 
It will also be noted that the figures for 1913 show considerably 
more decay than those for 1911, due mainly to the fact that more 
brown-rot developed during the season of 1913. 
