Preliminary Report on Apple-Packing Houses in the Northwest (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Preliminary Report on Apple-Packing Houses in the Northwest (Classic Reprint) written by W. M. Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Preliminary Report on Apple-Packing Houses in the Northwest Owing to unfavorable conditions that developed after the season opened, some of the detailed experiments contemplated in the origi nal plan could not be carried out. The scarcity of labor and the shortage of cars for moving the fruit to market resulted in a con gested condition in all of the packing houses visited and consider able confusion in some of them. It became necessary, therefore, to limit the work largely to the making of observations and con ducting such tests as would not interfere in any way with the pack ing-house operations. A floor plan showing the arrangement of the equipment was made of each of the more important houses and facilities for storing packed and unpacked fruit were noted. Sizing machines were tested for accuracy and efficiency and for their effect on the physical condition of the fruit. Methods of handling the fruit through every operation from the receiving door to the car were studied, and the efficiency of the different methods compared. Individual or ranch packing houses and operations were included in the investigations, so that the efficiency and economy of the two systems might be com pared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.