Carbon Dioxide Shipping Tests With Georgia Peaches-1940 A Summarized Report of Investigations Conducted in Cooperation With Shippers and Transportation Agencies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Carbon Dioxide Shipping Tests With Georgia Peaches-1940: A Summarized Report of Investigations Conducted in Cooperation With Shippers and Transportation Agencies Very adverse weather conditions were encountered during the course of the.work, there being 18 consecutive rainy days during which it was usually impossible to obtain comparable shipments defi nitely consigned to the same market. The rainy weather also made the peaches more subject to decay and of poor shipping quality. The adverse weather conditions interfered most with the tests on the early varieties which often show greatest spoilage in transit and with which shippers are usually most willing to take additional precautions (such as co2 gas treatment or precooling) in order to insure safe delivery. The five best out of the seven tests con ducted were with Elbertas, which will stand more abuse than any other variety and are frequently shipped to New York by truck with no refrigeration Whatever. 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.