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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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s is done by stacking them or placing them on traysuntil dry. One person labels and stacks on the average, about fifteen hundredends in ten hours. The cost of labeling averages about thirty centsfor one hundred ends. Making the Boxes.—Boxes are made at a specially constructedbench, which is fitted with a form to hold the end and center piecesin place while the top piece is nailed on. The box maker selects one JO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION labeled end piece, and two plain pieces for the center and oppositeend, and places them in their proper positions in the form. He thenplaces the top piece squarely on the ends with a cleat at each end,secures nails from the nail stripper, and proceeds to drive the nails,sending each one into the wood with a single stroke. The nails aredriven flush with the surface of the wood and not sunk. All nailswhose points are exposed should be withdrawn. The half-finished boxis removed from the form and placed on a loAver shelf where the side
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Fig. 5.—Delivery pails full of fruit awaiting to be transferred to the packers.Observe the pickers numbers chalked on the pails. Inspection table in the back-ground. pieces are nailed on. The box maker stacks the completed boxes behindhim. Expert box makers construct as many as nine hundred boxesper day, while a good average is about five hundred. Receiving and Supplying Fruit to the Packers.—The cherries areunloaded from the orchard wagon at the packing house door by thedriver assisted by the floor boys. The pickers number on each bucketis noted and tallied by one of the assistants. The pails of fruit arestacked on the floor near the packing tables. (Fig. 5.) As the packerscall for fruit the floor boys take the pails and empty them into thepacking trays, being careful to pour the cherries out gently. Packing the Standard Cherry Box.—The empty box is placed soas to incline toward the packer at an angle of about thirty degrees. CIRCULAR 232) HANDLING CHERRIES FOR EASTERN SHIPMENT

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