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Largest Apple Shipment i:
Leaves Rappahannock
(Picture on page 2.) . >.
Claiming' to be the largest single consignment ever shipped from Rappahannock county at one time, Wood Brothers at Flint Hill rolling by truck 560# boxes of apples.
The 15 truck-loads left for Williamsburg, Cheatham Annex,
to be..shipped overseas tJor the Navy's use. From 250 to 550 bushel boxes were on each truck. They were northwestern style b. shel boxes and each apple was individually wrapped and the boxes were strapped. Packing was. according the northwestern count, from 80 to 163 per box.
Red Delicious variety, the ap. pies were all grown in Rappahannock county from four different growers: Sunny Slope Farm Orchard, R. B. Rust Orchard, and Foster Brothers, of Flint Hill, and J. W. Keyser, from his farm in * Harris Hollow. . , AH of the trucks ttsed were Rappahannock owned and operated, excep^ohe trailer, truck, which came from Orange. Among the truck owners and operators were Gilbert Dennis of Amissville, Owen Sealock of Huntly, A. J. Dodson and Carson Johnson of Sperryville, Lester B u r k e of Washington, G. W. Smithy R. H. Dulalaney, Herbert Foster, Roland Welch, and the Wood Bros, trvcks from Flint" Hill.
The. train of trucks pulled out i between 8 o’clock and midnight Monday night.. A- picture was made about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and the picture on page 2 shows part of the consignment ready to go.
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