The Raisin Industry: A practical treatise on the raisin grapes, their history, culture and curingEisen, Gustavus A.
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The Raisin Industry: A practical treatise on the raisin grapes, their history, culture and curing
Eisen, Gustavus A.
Raisins; Viticulture -- California
When at last the tray is full, and all the five pounds of raisins from
the weighing tray are in, the upper surface should be smooth so as to
require as little pressure as possible. When full the trays are taken to
the press and stored on a side table until actually used. The presses
are generally arranged for four trays. These are now placed under the
press, a follower is placed on the top of every tray, and only
sufficient pressure applied. Frequently too much pressure is used, and
the raisins are flattened out to their greatest possible extent, many
even crushed and so broken that the juice runs out. All such crushed
raisins will sugar in a few months, and the whole box containing them
will spoil and deteriorate in value. If, again, the raisins have been
properly pressed, they will keep for months or even years. After the
trays have been sufficiently pressed, which generally is accomplished in
one minute’s time, the pressure is released, the follower removed, the
folders turned over the raisins, and the trays removed to the boxing
table, on which they may be allowed to accumulate until the boxer is
ready to fill his boxes. On this table the final packing or “making up”
of a box is done. It takes four of these five-pound frames to fill one
whole box. Each tray is in its turn placed over a box, the sliding
bottom is quickly removed, and the five-pound layer drops down in the
box undisturbed. Every fourth frame should, in addition to the common
paper wrapper, have labels and fancy paper pasted on the folders, or, as
is sometimes done, an extra fancy folder or wrapper is placed on the
third layer, and on the top or inside of it the fourth layer is dropped.
Each layer will thus be found in its own wrapper, but the upper layer
will have two, the outside one of which is fancy. Fine layers should
have a waxed paper immediately above the raisins, in order that the
moisture or sugar from them may not spoil the labels. On the top of the
waxed paper the chromo or label is placed. The box is now ready for
nailing.
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