Excerpt from Efficiency and Potential Economies of Dual-Purpose Shipping Containers for Mature-Green Tomatoes: Marketing Research Report No. 257 Shipping tests by rail and by motortruck from Florida and California to various markets in the Northeast indicated that the no and so-pound dual-purpose fiberboard containers protected the fruit adequately during transportation. When the fiberboard boxes were properly loaded and handled during transit, the comparative damage to containers, temperatures of fruit in transit, and ripeness of fruit upon arrival were about the same as those for wirebound crates and wooden lugs. Shipments of 32-pound fiberboard lugs by rail from California sustained slightly more damage than comparable ship ments of wooden lugs and ao and so-pound fiberboard containers. Inspection of the fruit at destination by Federal inspectors revealed that when ao and so-pound fiberboard boxes were properly packed, loaded, and handled during shipment, there was no more serious bruising of fruit shipped in them than of fruit in comparable shipments in jo-pound wooden lugs and 60-pound wirebound crates. Shipments of wrapped and place-packed California tomatoes in j2-pound fiberboard lugs, however, showed somewhat more bruising than comparable fruit shipped in wooden lugs or the other types of fiberboard containers. 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.