Summer Meeting. loi 



exhibit, and for the most part they had been well grown. While there was 

 a very large display of Ben Davis and similar varieties, the proportion of 

 Jonathan, Grimes, Huntsman, York and other varieties of high quality 

 was very noticeable. There were also from Missouri some 3,000 large 

 jars of processed fruit." (430 varieties, 21 kinds.) 



About this work I made the following report to Prof. Craig of Cor- 

 nell University at his request : 



Kansas City, Mo., March, 1905. 



My Dear Craig— The gathering, keeping and exhibiting of Missouri 

 fruit was a study, a lesson, a work, an experiment. Not being sure of 

 some of the results or of the plans of procedure in keeping the apples, it 

 required all of the different lines of experiment to make a success of the 

 keeping. 



We began the work, therefore, of collecting apples for cold storage 

 on September 10, and finished the work on November i, 1903. Putting 

 into cold storage some varieties which we supposed would not hold over, 

 we were agreeably surprised to find that they came out of storage in May 

 and June in very good condition indeed. 



All of this fruit was gathered when in the best of condition ; that is, 

 ripe, well colored, firm, and as near perfect as we could find them. These 

 specimens were at once wrapped in tissue paper and then wax paper, 

 packed closely in boxes or barrels and sent at once by express to the cold 

 storage, 'and there placed in a temperature of 31 to 32 degrees and 

 held at this temperature during the whole of the season. 



I am sure that if this plan is followed that we can keep apples with- 

 out loss. Of course, it would not be possible in a commercial way to 

 follow this plan because of the expense, but the nearer we can reach this 

 plan the more perfectly the apples will keep. 



We kept for instance the Gano apple three years, two years and one 

 year, so that we had on the tables during the month of November Gano 

 apples of 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904. 



As a result of our plan of gathering and handling, we kept Flora 

 Bell, Ortley, Lowell apples until June i, the Maiden Blush and Wealthy 

 until July I, the Jeffries and Wolf River and Grimes until August i. 



The Huntsman, York, Winesap, Rome Beauty, Blacktwig and others 

 of that class held until September and October in splendid condition, ex- 

 cept that they were scalded somewhat. After these dates, although we 

 had these varieties on the tables much longer, yet they showed the damage 

 done by scald while in cold storage. 



The length of time the apples kept on the tables depended upon the 

 character of the flesh of the apple as well as the condition of the apples at 

 gathering time. It is not so much the keeping qualities of the apple while 



