Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1906-05-09
PACKING ORANGES.
The Way the Golden Fruit Is Ham
died Tn California.


The Way the Golden Fruit Is Han
died Tn California.
The things one sees I'm an orange
packing house are a pleasure TO the
eye. delightful to the olfactories and.
when the local manager or overseer is
generous and indulgent person. also
most excellent 70 the taste. The oper-
ations are quiet and simple. but sys-
tematic. and carried on by all possible
mechanical and automatic devices FOR
tie saving OF labor and effectiveness Of
service.
At one end OF long building the or
augcS are unloaded from the vans. At
the other end. a few minutes later. they
are Snugly enScOnced in a railway car.
ready at the door 10 begin its long jour
ney eastward. Between these points OF
exit and entrance much has been done
in quick and quiet way. First the or
angcs are gently dumped into a rocep-
tacle. whence they are carried on belt
or moving platform 10 an upper part of
the building. where they pass slowly
along before a group OF workers. who
pick out the culls or imperfect fruit
and drop them into chutes FOR DISPOSE
ton elsewhere. The other oranges are
allowed ia pass on down an incline TO
the SeparatorS. in the meantime their
weight being taken and registered au-
tomatically as they move along.
The separatOrs consist Of long
troughs with Sits or openings OF va
rying widths ut the bottom, through
which the oranges drop. according TO
their sizes, rs they are carried along,
thus separating themselves into the
three grades by which they are known
TO the market. These grades are based
on size and are known as Standard
the smallest; choice" the next in rank.
and fancy" the largest of all.
As they separate themselves and drop
from the moving belt the oranges run
down in golden streams by little side
chuteS To small canvas platform or
box, whence they are removed 10y the
nimble fingers Of the packers. usually
young women. wrapped in soft paper
and placed in boxes for final shipment.
An expert packer will hll from eighty
to ninety boxes per day. From these
busy young women the boxes are care
fully trundled To n nearby bench or Ia
BILE, where other employees deity nail
and close up the open side. one more
turn 10y other ready hands. and the fin
ished boxes are passed into car
drawn on convenient siding. where,
carefully secured and piled to the roof,
they are seen no more until they reach
the great distributing centerS in the
eastern marketS.-I.a Sale \. Maynard
in Leslies Weekly.
The IndeStructibIe Tooth.
The temple ut lakadama, Japan, con-
tainS a wonderful relic in the shape of
a tooth which, tradition says. one of
the gods pulled from his jaw in order
TO have n weapon with which to dis
patch an immense cobra. Years ago.
according 10 the tradition. after the
tooth had been wOrshiped by heather
devotees for centuries. change of sen
timent took place in regard TO the relic
1t was declared to be 4 fraud and was
accordingly ground to a powder and
then thrown into the river. But the
particles came together, 50 the priests
say anu again iOIiiieu theuiSSiNcS INTO
perfect tooth. which was found as
perfect as before the ordeal, quietly re
posing in the bed OF the river After
this miracle the temple of the sacred
! tooth" which had also been destroyed
by the mbeiievcrS. was rebuilt and the
tooth again CnShrined rs an object of
alteration. At present il is kept in a
gold box wrapped in films from the
sacred white spiders web. Nonbeliev-
ers in the power Of the sacred indie
structibie tooth say that it is simply 4
molar of some extinct species of gigan
| Tie animal