Excerpt from Harvesting and Handling California Cherries for Eastern Shipment Cherries should be transferred to the packing house with the least possible delay. The orchard truck or wagon should be easy riding, built low to facilitate loading and unloading, and large enough to carry from eight to twelve hundred pounds of fruit. The fruit is loaded on the truck or wagon by field boys who collect the delivery pails and distribute empty ones. 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.

Excerpt from Harvesting and Handling California Pears for Eastern Shipment Each pear is carefully picked by hand, by a slight upward turn against the spur, and placed carefully in the picking receptacle, never thrown or dropped. Pickers should be instructed-to handle pears as carefully as eggs, for the slightest bruise hastens decay. 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.

Excerpt from The Handling and Shipping of Fresh Cherries and Prunes From the Willamette Valley: January 10, 1916 Both careful-handling and precooling investigations were con ducted with sweet cherries and prunes during the season of 1911. The work with prunes during the season of 1913 was confined largely to the precooling of carefully handled lots, there being no comparable commercially handled lots of fruit for purposes of comparison, as rainy weather during the harvesting season rather discouraged fresh fruit shipments, especially as the prices prevailing for evaporated or dried fruits were eminently satisfactory. On account of the impracticability of securing a consignment of any definite number of cars to any one market, actual shipping experiments had to be omitted during both years, and all experimental series were held in an iced car at Salem. 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.

Excerpt from Harvesting and Handling Apricots and Plums for Eastern Shipment There are three to five pickings, according to the rapidity with which the fruit ripens. At the first picking generally only a few of the fruits most exposed to the sun are in proper condition for har vesting. 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.

Excerpt from The Relation of Maturity of California Plums to Shipping and Dessert Quality Since California plums are produced two to three thousand miles from the principal eastern markets, the harvesting and shipping of them is a most important problem. Eight to twelve days. Must usually elapse between the time of loading the fruit into refrigerator cars and its arrival on the market. From one to three days additional maybe necessary before it reaches the retail purchaser. Under these condi tions it is necessary, therefore, that highly perishable fruits, such as plums, be harvested and shipped before becoming tree ripe, if they are to carry satisfactorily. Firmness is not only essential for success ful long-distance shipment but after the necessary rehandling the fruit must be delivered to the retailer in a firm, sound condition. On the other hand, if picked too early, plums will not ripen with good dessert quality. In general, the nearer tree ripe the fruit when picked, the better the dessert quality when fully ripe. The commercial grower and shipper must therefore pick and handle the fruit so it Will arrive in a satisfactory market condition, and at the same time secure the highest possible dessert quality. In View of the insistent demand from dealers that nothing but hard fruit be shipped, there has developed a tendency to harvest a portion of the crop at least, so early as to sacrifice considerable of its eating quality. This investigation accordingly Was undertaken to determine as accurately as possible under existing transportation conditions when the leading plum varieties should be harvested. 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.

Excerpt from Maturity Standards for Harvesting Bartlett Pears for Eastern Shipment Fruit from different orchards showed certain variations, but the following tables (1 to 13 inclusive), which summarize the tests con ducted in certain of the more important districts will serve to give a very good idea of how the fruit ripened. Various comments and notes on the color, firmness, and quality of the fruit accompany each table. Figure 1 shows graphically the general trend of softening of Bartlett pears in certain districts during 1928, while figure 2 indi cates the color and shows the pressure of all samples collected after the beginning of the 1928 commercial picking season. 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.

Excerpt from Cherries Sweet and sour cherries do not compete seriously either for the use of land or in the consuming markets. The commercial production of sweet cherries in the United States is largely confined to the states west of the Rocky Mountains, the commercial production of sour cherries, to the states east of the Rocky Mountains. Sweet. Cherries are used mainly as fresh or canned table fruit and in the manufacture of maraschino cherries, while the bulk of the sour cherries are used as a pie fruit. California is the most important. State in the production of sweet cherries. The average annual production in California during the past four years, 1925 - 1928, amounted to tons, as against 00 tons in Oregon and tons in Washington. From 1921 to 1926 there was a. Gradual increase in the bearing acreage of cherries in California, amounting on the average to almost 400 acres a year. 'during the past three years the increase has been much more rapid, amounting to about 800 acres a year. Indications are that this rapid increase will be maintained during the next few years. In 1929 there were acres of bearing cherries in the state and nonbearing acres. The California Cooperative Crop Reporting Service estimates that by 1932 the bearing acreage will amount to acres, an increase of 23 per cent over the bearing acreage in 1929. 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.