Excerpt from Shipping Tests With California Citrus Fruit From Los Angeles to Rotterdam Detailed observations of six shipments of California oranges, grapefruit, and lemons from Los Angeles to Rotterdam, April to September 1955, indicate that some of the problems concerned with maintaining and expanding the European market can be solved through better selection of fruit and improved handling and refrigera tion before, during, and after shipment. Thorough precooling before loading into the refrigerated ships is the most urgent need. Most commercial refrigerated ships are not equipped to cool warm fruit sufficiently after loading. The tests show that strict adherence to the best handling procedures already known to the industry can solve the problems of bruising and other damage that occurs during handling. When transported on ships with adequate refrigeration facilities, test oranges of high carrying quality arrived at destination in excellent condition and retained their quality satisfactorily for 3 weeks. 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.