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weather may be ; while such varieties as Wolf River, Smith's Cider, 

 Huntsman, and even York, Winesap and Black Twig will not hold up long 

 in good color and condition after coming out of cold storage. 



The best plans of cold storage and the best varieties for that purpose 

 have not as yet, by any means been thoroughly established. We have 

 still many things to learn as to the individuality of each variety. Other 

 apples, seemingly just as good in flesh, and just as good keepers will not hold 

 up after being taken from cold storage anything like as well, and in fact go 

 to pieces in a few days, or a week at most, or at least deteriorate so badly 

 in appearance that they are not fit to show or sell. I feel sure that we must 

 look to the keeping qualities of our apples both in and out of cold storage 

 in all our future plantings, and this matter can be settled only by experi- 

 ments in testing them. 



This then should be the order of our requirements in selecting 

 our apple varieties for future planting : Hardiness, Productiveness, Resis- 

 tance to Fungus Diseases, Cold Storage Adaptation, Quality, Size and 

 Color. 



The apple display at the World's Fair was a great lesson to every one 

 who saw it, and it is to be regretted that some one was not appointed to 

 make a record of the apples shown by every State, of the time at which 

 they were put on the tables, the keeping qualities, and the length of 

 time they kept in good condition. Such a record of every day's work 

 from the opening to the closing of the Exposition, and from every State 

 would be of untold value to all our fruit growers. As it now is I have tried 

 to keep in a general way only, a list of the best and the poorest keepers, 

 after being in cold storage and my conclusions are given as herein stated. 



NOTES ON THE KEEPING OF APPLES IN THE ILLINOIS 



EXHIBIT 



J. W. STANTON 



On account of the almost total failure of the apple crop in Illinois in 

 1903 we had only few varieties in storage for the exhibit, among them 

 being Ben Davis, Willow Twig, Grimes Golden, Jonathan, Rome Beauty, 

 Wine Sap, Gano, Winter May, (known also as May of Myers and Ranish 

 May) Janet, Kinnird's Choice, Mam. Black Twig, Ark. Black, York Imper- 

 ial, Huntsman, Salome, Yellow Belleflower, Roman Stem, Lawver, and 

 Minkler. These were allowed to mature and color on the trees, when they 

 were carefully picked and wrapped with two coverings of paper, tissue next 

 to apple and parchment on outside. They were sent at once to storage. 

 In placing them on exhibit I took out the early maturing sorts first : Grimes 

 and Jonathan and York Imperial, on May ist, 1904. Very little decay or 

 discoloration was noticed at this time but two months later York and 



