Studies of Watermelon Loading for Rail Shipment, 1953

P. L. Breakiron, J. R. Winston and J. Kaufman

No 310021, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpts from the report Summary: Shipping tests with watermelons by rail from Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina to various destinations in 1953 showed that loading the Congo variety of melons cross-wise of the car instead of lengthwise (the conventional method) resulted in 70 percent less bruising, 69 percent fewer cracked melons, and 47 percent less surface scarring than in comparable shipments loaded lengthwise. Shipments of 50 test cars loaded cross-wise and 52 check cars loaded according to the conventional lengthwise method, were studied during the melon shipping season. Shipping tests of 8 additional experimental loads showed that in the stem-end-to- stem-end arrangement of melons in lengthwise loads there were 22 percent fewer damaged melons than in the conventional stem-end-to-blossom-end arrangement.

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Pages: 34
Date: 1954-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310021

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