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many suggestions: D. 8. Beckwith, Albion, N. Y.; A. C. Howes, 
Albion, N. Y.; B. Frank Morgan, Albion, N. Y.; Chas A. Hoag, 
Lockport, N. Y. 
Chas. Shafer, Gasport, N. Y., furnished a number of notes on 
the comparative efficiency of ice storage and chemical cold 
storage. 
The authors acknowledge their obligation to all these gentle- 
men who have so generously assisted them by filling out the 
circulars or by reading proof. 
The recent publication by the United States Department of 
Agriculture of results of its tests of varieties in chemical cold 
storage in cooperation with this Station gave opportunity for 
supplementing the results of the Station’s tests in natural tem- 
perature storage with tests of fruit from the same orchards in 
cold storage. 
In 1901 and 1902 the Station furnished 109 varieties of apples, 
picked and packed the same, and consigned them to the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture at Buffalo where the tests were made by 
Profs. G. Harold Powell and 8. H. Fulton. The results of their 
work are reported in Bulletin 48 of the Bureau of Plant Indus- 
try, which was issued while this bulletin was being prepared for 
the printer and from which the notes on these tests in this 
bulletin are taken. Tests with fruit from other localities were 
in progress at the same time but only those tests with fruit from 
this Station are reported in this bulletin except as otherwise 
noted. 
THE STATION TESTS. 
The Station tests were made during a period of four years 
with a large number of varieties (165) of apples which were 
stored in the Station fruit house with no artificial refrigeration. 
The details of this investigation were carried out by C. P. Close, 
then Assistant Horticulturist at this Station. As already stated 
the primary purpose of the tests was to find out the season of 
ripening of the different varieties and the length of time during 
which they would keep in sound condition under natural tem- 
perature conditions. The fruit which was used in these tests 
was all grown in the Station orchards, as was also that used in 
the Department cooperative tests. 
