12 —Lancaster 'Farming, Saturday, July 30, 19S0 Open Containers. Poor Salesmen Vegetable Grov/ers Told Pennsylvania produce grow ers. packers and shippers must reappraise the conse quences of the continued use of open damaged and dirty containers for their products when shipped to terminal markets, says Roland G Har ris, State Agriculture Dc partment marketing special ist It is probably needless to point out that growers and shippers in the large produce areas of the South and West Coast and many local growers and shippers wno have beeh “marketing con scious’’ long -ago adopted sound, closed containers that were most suitable for pro tecting and shipping each commodity, Harris says However, a number of Penn sylvania growers still use op en containers such as the 16-quart and \s bushel basket to ship peaches, apples, to matoes, peppers,, egg plants, sweet potatoes and the like to large nearby wholesale terminal markets. Many growers also ship produce to market in used containers that are sometimes badly worn, broken or dam aged, and dirty -because of the cost advantage of the used container compared with a now one. “It is probably necessary, therefore, to remind some growers that their ‘pack’ must compete for sale in the wholesale market with quali ty ‘packs’ from many sec tions of the country and loc ally,’’ Harris says “Buyers CHAIN SAW SERVICE CENTER New & Uced Snovely'a Faun Service NEW HOLLAND -EL 4-2214 0 ' -’^3 ,A*- . BROILER FEED "'Mmi SUNSHINE FARM LIME VALLEY MILLS SUPPLY Liiilz Hr Ncwmanstown C E. GAUDER & SONS R.D. 1, East Earl H. M. STAUFFER & SON’S, Inc. W inner Ronks ROSS C. ULRICH, JR R D ?, Peach Bottom ABERDEEN MILLS ROHRER'S MILL H D. 2. Elizabethtown purchase produce mainly on appearance and external characteristics, and often as not, the appearance of the container or ‘pack itself is as important to the sale as the appearance of the pro droduce" Harris says that this, in it self, should be good enough reason for farmers-to discon tinue the use of dirty and damaged used containers and open containers that do not protect the quality of the produce “Recent labor cost studies by the Pennsylvania Depart ment of Agriculture’s Bur eau of Markets m wholesale produce stores in the Phila delphia Food Distribution Center show that labor costs for handling open produce containers and damaged con tainers are more than double the costs for handling sound, closed containers.” “Most open containers of the basket type are difficult to stack, store and transport to market Open containers take up valuable selling space and refrigerator space in wholesale and retail stores transportation costs for the farmer and buyer are higher because trucks have to be racked to support open containers. The other altern ative is transporting a much smaller truckload, with a resultant higher transporta tion cost per unit There is still a stronger case against the use of open and damaged containers, ac cording to Harris “Many studies on produce handling have pointed out the advantages of pallets and skids for handling produce. Most of the chain stores and many of the larger indepen dent produce wholesalers, are now handling 100 per cent of BOOST your EARNING with New , WAYNE Boost youc earning power from broileis with new, powerful, Wayne Rocket Broiler —built to bring ytfu more Broiler Meat With less Feed, Time, and Work than ever be fore! See us now and arrange to put your next batch thru the Wayne Rocket Wc.;. MOUNTVILLE FEED SERVICE H. D. 2, Columbxc R.D. 1, Willow Street J. K. STAUFFER & SON HERSHEY BROS Lcola MILLERSVILLE POWER Powerful Lawn 8r Bellaire Heinholds SUPPLY CO, Millersville R.D. 1 Ronks Earl Fisher Wins Boar Pig At Field Day A purebred Landrace boar pig was awarded to Earl Fisher, swine herdsman, of the Stauffer Homestead Far ms, for. his first place win in the judging contest al the annual field day sponsored by the Lancaster County Swine Producers Association The July 23 event at the farm of James Martin, East Earl attracted over 50 swine their produce on pallets and many more wholesalers are adding the pallet system as they modernize their whole sale warehouses Needless to say, open containers cannot be handled in such a ware housing system “Therefore, the open con tainer is immediately passed up by the chain store buyers and larger wholesale buyers in the terminal market, po tentially the largest buying groups, and is left for the hucksters, peddlers and bar gain hunters in the market. “The time has arrived when those farmers and shippers who bargain hunt to save a few pennies on badly wo re used containers or open con tainers, must settle for bar gain prices,” Harris conclud es. •'Prompt Ball Bond Servlet” BUHRMANS CONVENIENT PARKING LOTS Opposite Brunswick Hotel Opposite Post OHict Next to Western Auto Store 115 East King Street Norman A. 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