Excerpt from Improving Loading Methods for Truck Shipments of Florida Avocados and Limes To familiarize the research workers with the methods employed in shipping avocados by truck, to determine the nature and the scope of the transportation problems, and to develop the data necessary for planning subsequent shipping tests, a preliminary study of 25 truck shipments was made during the 1957-58 marketing season. As a result of this preliminary study, certain changes recommended to the Avocado Administrative Committee were made in the outside dimensions of most avocado containers. These changes took some time to effect. Meanwhile, however, a severe freeze in south Florida during the winter of 1957-58 extensively damaged the avocado and lime groves and destroyed most of the 1958-59 season's crop. The shipping tests scheduled for the second phase of the study had to be deferred until the 1959-60 shipping season. 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.