SHIPMENT OF RED RASPBERRIES. 19 
were determined by carefully separating the moldy and soft berries 
from the sound ones, the percentages being based on actual weights 
of moldy, soft, and sound berries. 
RESULTS OF THE HOLDING TESTS IN 1911. 
The carefully handled berries held in a car for four days developed 
only 0.4 per cent of decay, while the commercially handled compar- 
able lots developed an average of 4.6 per cent of decay. The berries 
held six days in a car developed even more striking differences, the 
carefully handled 0.2 per cent and the commercially handled 9.9 
per cent of decay. At the end of eight days the carefully handled 
fruit had developed but 2.2 per cent of decay as against 26.7 in that 
commercially handled, or only one-twelfth as much. At the end of 
eight days the carefully handled fruit had developed only half as 
CAREFUL ORDINARY 
HANDLING ; * COMMERCIAL HANDLING 
PER CENT DECAY PER CENT DECAY 
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Cae cos aaa) FOUR DAYS IN CAR I Tan tant ares 
[04 ON WITHORAWAL 4.6 
[io oneoaYLaATER 17.5 (0 
SIX DAYS IN-CAR 
J02 oNwiTHDRAWAL 9.9 QE 
MN 3s onecyctateR 31.9 (Too 
EIGHT DAYS IN CAR 
22 ON WITHDRAWAL 26.7 (SSIES rare reer 
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Iie. 17.—Diagram illustrating the percentage of decay in carefully handled and com- 
mercially handled red raspberries held in an iced car at Puyallup, Wash., for four, 
six, and eight days, on withdrawal and one day later, season of 1911. 
much decay as that commercially handled in the car but four days. 
Figure 17 and Table 1 show the differences in decay due to differences 
in handling methods. Included under the term“ decay ” as used here 
are both soft and moldy berries. Under the first designation are 
included berries entirely too soft and mushy to be marketable for any 
purpose, but showing no mold. 
The development of less decay in the fruit held in the car six days 
than in that held. for but four days is an apparent inconsistency, but 
it is easily accounted for when one takes into consideration the fact 
that different lots of fruit must necessarily be used at each inspection. 
While the aggregate of fruit used in these investigations was large, 
the quantity ‘of fruit inspected each time for any part of a single ex- 
periment or test was necessarily limited, and such slight discrepancies 
as occur in Table 1 and others usually result from occasional bad 
decay in a single cup or crate. 
