Bulletin 202, Cost of Handling Citrus Fruit


 Floor labor cost was the highest each year in the group of
packinghouses that operated at less than 20 percent of full ca-
pacity and lowest each year in the group that operated at the
highest percent of capacity but did not show a cons stent rela-
tion to this factor. Since floor labor can be hired as needed, this
result would be expected.
 Packing labor, picking, hauling and material costs were not
influenced by the percentage of the time that the packinghouses
ran at full capacity.


 1.40
 1.35
 1.30
 1.25
 I.?0
 1.15
 1.10
 1.05
 i.oo
 .95
 ) .90


 .75
 .70
 .05
 510 15 2 5 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 5 90 95 100 110
 Percent of time packinghouse ran at full capacity
 Fig. 97.-Relation of percent of time packinghouse ran at full capacity
 to cost per box for 88 packinghouses, season 1924-25. Firms oper-
 ating pre-cooling plants not included.

 When the percentage of time that the packinghouse ran at
 full capacity was correlated with cost per box, the coefficient
 was -0.35302 0.06281 for 88 packinghouses without pre-cool-
 ing for the 1924-25 season, and -0.32036 0.06579 for 85 pack-
 inghouses for 1925-26.
 The influence that the percentage of time the packinghouse
 ran at full capacity has to cost of handling citrus fruit per box
 is shown for each year by dot charts, Figs. 97 and 98.
 Of those firms that operated for a higher percentage of the
 time than the average, only five for 1924-25 and seven for 1925-