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BETTER FRUIT 



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Mr. Fruit 

 Grower 



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the orchard after picking and before 

 packing tlie amount of decay would 

 have been greater. 



It i.s a well-known law that with 

 each increa.se of 18 degrees Fahren- 

 heit, the rapidity with which chemical 

 changes take place is increased from 

 two to three times, or applying this 

 to fruit storage, at 50 degrees tem- 

 perature the chemical changes which 

 ultimately result in the death of the 

 fruit would occur at least twice as 

 rapidly as at 32 degrees. Thus the con- 

 clusion to be drawn is plainly that the 

 lowest temperature at which the fruit 

 can be held without danger of freezing 

 is the one most favorable to its length 

 of storage life. Fruit has been placed 

 by the Department of Agriculture in 

 cold storage, part held at 32 degrees 

 and part at 35 degrees, and the results 

 were briefly as follows: The first two 

 inspections, in .lanuary and February, 

 showed very little dilTerence in the 

 amount of scald or decay in normally 

 good-keeping apples held at the two 

 temperatures. However, at the third 

 and fourth inspections, made toward 

 the end of their storage life, the fruit 

 held at 35 degrees showed consider- 

 ably more decay than that stored at 32 

 degrees. In apples with a shorter 

 storage life the differences were shown 

 even in the first two inspections. These 

 results are additional proof to the ef- 

 fect that low temperatures retard the 

 ripening processes, and that as these 

 l)rocesses are quickened by higher tem- 

 Ijeratures the length of life of the fruit 

 is shortened and its susceptibility to 

 disease increases. 



Even after many years of successful 

 cold storage of apples many persons 

 cling to the belief that cold-storage 

 apples will not keep as well upon re- 

 moval as apples that are held through- 

 out at a higher temperature. The De- 

 partment investigations give very con- 

 clusive evidence that this opinion is 

 erroneous. Apples from the same lot, 

 placed in and removed from cold and 

 common storage at the same time and 

 held after removal under similar con- 

 ditions, practically always favor the 

 lower temperature, especially if re- 

 moved fairly late in the storage season. 

 Apples held in common storage are 

 usually removed by .lanuary or Febru- 

 ary, while those in cold storage are 

 often kept considerably later. People 

 are apt to compare apples removed 

 from common storage early in the sea- 

 son with those taken from cold storage 

 a good deal later, and this is obviously 

 unfair. Apples held in any kind of 

 storage until they are overripe will un- 

 doubtedly deteriorate very rapidly 

 tipon withdrawal to a warm tempera- 

 line, .lust as cold retards ri])ening in 

 slorage, a cool tem]K'rature is best for 

 fruit when held for any length of time 

 after its removal from storage. 



In sijile of what has been said rc- 

 gardhig the ell'ects of temperatures 

 liigher than .32 degrees upon the keej)- 

 iiig (|uality of apples, every grower 

 liere doubtless realizes the impossi- 

 bility of ])Iacing all of the crop in cold 

 storage. At the i)resent lime lack of 



Only a Car 

 of Apples 



(Continued from October issue.) 



The Plot Thickens! 



Bunco Skinner at Bat! 



(By C. C. P.) 



Euggles of Keel 



"Ourr-r-r-r-ssses!" 



It was B. S.,the Proud Pro- 

 duce Pirate, who emitted this 

 exclamatiou tbrougii his 

 cleuched teeth. 



1 lis musical voice trembled 

 with suppressed emotiou. His 

 jewelled fiugers nervously 

 clutched a telegram, the con- 

 tents of which had caused 

 this outburst, for it said: — 

 "Won't consign. AVill only 

 sell draft attached Bill of 

 Lading. 

 Gap." 



But instantly B. S. recov- 

 ered his wonted poise. Again 

 he was master of the situa- 

 tion. In honeyed tones he 

 called his private secretary. 



"Here, Miss Keys, take a 

 wire to this sagebrush rab- 

 bit — 'Ruggles of Red Gap: 

 Answering yours, date, will 

 buy any part ten cars extra 

 fancy winesaps three dollars 

 box delivered. Answer. Bun- 

 co Skiuner.' " 



Daintily lighting another 

 of his private stock Turkish 

 Cigarettes, B. S. leaned back 

 luxiirion.sly and solihxiuized 

 — "Guess the over([uoting B. 

 S.consignment racket isabout 

 l)layed out, but I've got a 

 trick worth two of that." — 



Thi.s ab.sorbiug story will be 

 continued iu our next. 



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