Excerpt from Precooling Investigations With Deciduous Fruits If good condition is to be guaranteed at destination, many boat lines now demand that export shipments, particularly pears, be precooled before loading. The refrigerated holds of most boats can carry a cool cargo satisfactorily but usually lack sufficient refrigeration for the ini tial cooling of large quantities of warm fruit within the desired period. 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.