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an evaporating plant with power 



needed for the equipment of 

 machinery : — 



Boutell Manufacturing Co., Kochester, i^ew York. 



Goodell Manufacturing Co., Antrim, IST. H. 



Fruit Machinery Co., Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. 



Coons-Mahett Manufacturing Co., Rochester, jST. Y. 



Evans and Co., Medina, New York. 



Temperatures at which Drying should be Conducted. 



It must be said in the outset that no chemical studies of the changes 

 occurring in fruits dried at different temperatures 'have ever been made, 

 and we have at present no knowledge as to the extent to which loss of 

 flavour, of solid constituents, conversion of starch into sugar, or other 

 chemical changes occurring during drying can he controlled by con- 

 trolling temijerature. In the absence of such know'ledge, the recom- 

 mendations made here are simply those in which the great majority of 



