Identifier: harvestinghand00duru (find matches)
Title: Harvesting and handling California peaches for eastern shipment
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Duruz, W. P. (Willis Pierre), 1896-
Subjects: Peach Peach
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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then another. When the fruit has been previously sized,however, each packer packs only one size. The empty box is placed on the packing platform. The packerselects the fruit and starts to wrap (fig. 8a). He picks up a peachwith the right hand and the wrapping paper with the left. In pickingup the wrapping paper, care should be taken to grasp it toward onecorner, thus allowing more paper to be finally folded over the peach(fig. 8b). The fruit is thrown from the right hand into the paperheld in the packers left hand (fig. 8c). A little force is necessary tobreak down the paper and bring the corners into position for wrap-ping with the least amount of lost motion. The wrap is finished by Circular 241) harvesting and handling California peaches 15 placing* the palm of the right hand around the fruit (fig. Sd). Thewrapped fruit is placed in the box with the left hand, the loose endsof the paper resting- on the bottom (fig. 8e). At the same time theright hand is reaching for another peach.
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Fig. 8.—Progressive steps in wrapping peaches. 16 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION The question may arise as to the additional time required to wrapeach peach. As a matter of fact one can pack much faster by wrap-ping than by not wrapping. The actual time in wrapping is but afraction of the total time involved in the operation of packing. Ifpacked without wrapping the peaches will not remain in place so well,but with paper on them they stay put. The size and shape of the variety will determine whether the fruitshall be packed with the stem end up or down, rather than on itscheek. With some sizes of peaches the packer will find that onemethod gives a better pack than another; this can be learned onlyfrom experience. Most packers, however, prefer to pack peaches withthe stem end down. Styles of pack.—There are two styles of pack used for peaches,the offset and the diagonal styles. The offset pack (3X3)is employed for peaches which can be placed five or more across thebox.

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