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Title: Vanilla culture in Puerto Rico
Identifier: CAT31289489 (find matches)
Year: 1948 (1940s)
Authors: Childers, Norman Franklin, 1910-
Subjects: Vanilla; Orchids
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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68 CIRCULAR NO. 2 8, FEDERAL EXPERIMENT STATION bers sign a 6-year agreement to sell their entire vanilla output to the cooperative. Nonme-mbers also are permitted to send beans to the plant for processing, but they pay a special service charge which may vary according to assignment by the board of directors. In 1945 this service charge was 15 cents per pound of green beans. The growers send beans in lots by insured mail immediately after picking. The green beans are classified on arrival into "Primes." "Seconds," and "Splits," and an account is opened in the books for the respective grower. An official receipt and detailed description is sent to the
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Figure 53.—Curing equipment inside the Castaner plant. Hot-water dipping containers are shown at the right center for killing the beans. On the left, after having been "sweated" the beans are being straightened and sorted according to size, after which they are placed in the drying racks to the left. When they have reached about 27 percent moisture, they are tied in bundles and placed in the conditioning boxes, one of which is shown in the foreground. grower for each lot. The aggregate of lots from members and non- members is then cured together as one lot. and after the curing process is completed, usually in June or July, samples are sent to the United States via a broker in New York to be placed before bidders. A vanilla sales committee of the cooperative approves the sale to the highest bidder. The beans are then packed in wax paper and especially pre- pared cartons (fig. 54) and shipped six to a case by classification and size. A discount is made on operation costs, selling costs, and reserves for the cooperative,11 plus any advance money given to members. The 11 In 1943-44 the discouut was 23 cents per pound of green beans; in 1944-45 it was 28 cents.

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