TABLE 3.--Number of Firms, Volume of Citrus Fruit Handled and Total Packing
 and Selling Cost, by Type of Container, 41 Packinghouses,
 Florida, 1962-63 (Cont.).

 Total
 Container No. of Total Average Packing and
 Firms Volume per Firm Selling Cost
 per Box
 (1-3/5 bu. equiv.)


Grapefruit: (cont.)
8-1b. mesh bag in wood master cont.
1-3/5 bu. standard box (nailed)
1/2 box mesh bag
4/5 bu. standard box
Miscellaneous containers
 Total Packed Grapefruit

Tangerines:
4/5 bu. half Bruce box
4/5 bu. wirebound flat box
Bulk in truck
4/5 bu. fiberboard box
Field box
1-3/5 bu. Bruce box
4/5 bu. Bruce export
Miscellaneous containers
 Total Packed Tangerines

Misc. (Limes, Lemons, Kumquats):
Miscellaneous containers
 Total Packed Fruit

Bulk Fruit Through House to Cannery:
Oranges
Grapefruit
Tangerines
 Total Bulk Through House

Direct, Grove to Cannery


Packed Fruit Purchased

Total Volume All Fruit


 1,750
 769
 276
 182
 34,359
6,208,864


 520,232
 86,979
 4,201
 4,067
 4,033
 2,866
 60
 70
 622,508


2 613
41 10,638,154


36 1,789,681
36 1,750,562
29 139,245
38 3,679,488

30 9,401,821


12,926


 583
 154
 276
 91
 17,180
 159,202


 21,676
 12,426
 525
 1,017
 1,008
 478
 60
 70
 19,453


 306
259,4 7


49,713
48,627
 43802


313,394


$ 1.8792
 1.6511
 1.3005
 2.0725
 1.1872



$ 1.8081
 2.1290
 .9973
 1.6708
 .7831
 1.8030
 1.6235
 2.6940



$ 2.1027



$ .2696
 .1863
 .4679


$ .0778


.1628


41 23,732,389


The 4/5 bushel fiberboard box was the most important container used for

oranges in 1962-63 from the standpoint of total volume. This was followed

by the 4/5 bushel wirebound box and the 1-3/5 bushel wirebound or Bruce

box. These three containers were packed with about 79 percent of the oranges.