Identifier: harvestinghandli232duru (find matches)
Title: Harvesting and handling California cherries for eastern shipment
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Duruz, W. P. (Willis Pierre), 1896-
Subjects: Cherry Cherry
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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ach other, care being taken to place eachbox squarely on the one beneath, so that the top box rests on the cleatsof the lower box and not on the bulge. Wherever stacked, the bulgeof the bottom box must not be allowed to rest on the floor, but elevatedon a small rack made for the purpose. LOADING FOR SHIPMENT Delivery to the Cars The packed boxes are delivered to the cars by wagon or automobile truck. The conveyance should be easy riding to prevent bruising the fruit. By all means the load should be snug so at all times each box will rest upon the cleats of the one below it. The load should be 16 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION covered with a light canvas to protect it from the heat of the sun andthe dust of the road. If possible, hauling should be done during thecool part of the day. If there is a railroad siding at the packing house,the packed boxes are transferred direct to the car by means of a handtransfer or grab truck, which increases the ease and rapidity ofloading.
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Fig. 11.-inspection. -A satisfactory box ready for final nailing. Boxes at the left awaiting Loading the Cars Cherries are shipped East in express cars or refrigerator cars.The express cars are supplied with small ice chests which hold ten totwelve standard cherry boxes. The cherries shipped in refrigeratorcars are kept cool by ice in the bunkers at each end of the car. Most cherries are shipped in refrigerator cars, the loading of whichis a specialized trade. In order to secure the minimum freight ratesto Eastern points, twenty-six thousand pounds must be loaded in eachcar. As a packed cherry box is estimated at eleven pounds gross, thisrequires at least 2364 boxes for a car. In loading a car, the first row of boxes is placed across the flooragainst the end of the car, leaving equal space between boxes and thesides of the car. Succeeding boxes are stacked fifteen to sixteen highon top of these, every alternate layer of boxes, including the top layer,being secured by two car strips na

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