L-R Ruby Collins Nix, Naomi Bruce, Leela Lucas Phelps. The whiz-bang office girls that knew where every cucumber was located.
Cucumbers were washed by machine. Jan Edwards watching the process.
Another view of cucumber washing plus inspection by the women.
The packin' shed as we called it. Cucumbers and tomatoes were brought to the shed by the farmers. The vegetables were unloaded onto the platform. After washing, grading and sorting, the cucumbers were packed into bushel baskets, trucked across the platform to the open door of a refrigerator railroad car. Tomatoes were individually wrapped in paper and then packed into 30# tomato lugs and also placed in the refrigerator cars. Each end of the railroad car was packed with crushed ice by Mr. Alford from the local ice house. The picture shows Mrs. Blaschke in the foreground with the sun bonnet, one of the pioneers of Ingleside.
Seasonal work by the women of Ingleside. This process is the culling and sorting of the cucumbers. The marketable cucumbers are placed in the bushel baskets to be loaded on the railroad cars. The culls were of no value and some were dumped in Longino's pasture, hoping the cows would eat them. I never saw the cows even sniff the big pile of culls.
Ronnie Edwards, son of Hazel and Lloyd Edwards; Jan Edwards, daughter of Wilber and Crystal Edwards. Lloyd and Wilber began operation of the packin' shed after their Dad, F. N. Edwards died while attending the Sunday morning Methodist Men's Club at church.
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