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rntil you find it is cold, and then put them in the cellar? 



THE PRESIDENT: I think it is very desirable to get 

 them in just as quick as possible. I know Mr. Windsor 

 makes a practice of picking one afternoon, and the apples 

 that are picked that afternoon go into cold storage the next 

 day. On the other hand, I have been told that a neighbor of 

 his. gets tht>m into actual cold storage anywhere within a 

 week or ten days, and Mr. Windsor is very much more suc- 

 cessful that the other man. I remember also an investiga- 

 tion that the Ignited States Department undertook, which 

 shows very definitely that apples held in an open shed, sub- 

 ject to ordinary temperature for a couple of weeks before 

 being put into storage, as against the same apples put di- 

 rectly in, the latter show very much better keeping qualities. 



A MEMBER: T was referring to one that had no cold 

 storage, but simply a cellar. 



THE PRESIDENT : I should say that cellar storage 

 should be better than outside, especially if handled as ^Ir. 

 Hittinger suggests. 



A MEMBER: In regard to Mr. Windsor, I believe he 

 Eent his apples into cold storage every day. 



THE PRESIDENT : Yes, that is his practice. The ap- 

 ples were never off the trees more than a day before they 

 ■were put in storage. 



(Adjourned to 7.30 p. m.) 



