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than ordinary years. Of course, that type of injury may 

 come from one of three thing-s. We may have it in the 

 form of sun scald, which I take it is not the case with most 

 of our apples this year. Then we may have cold storage 

 scald, which' happens when the apples have not l;een stored 

 under quite favorable conditions. I take it that that is not 

 entirely responsible for the trouble this year, since apples 

 which have not been in cold storage show it the same as 

 those which have been. So far as I can fig^tre it out, I think 

 it is due to the unusual weather conditions that we had this 

 last summer, when we had, during- June and July, very hot, 

 dry periods, and then later in August we had some very un- 

 usual wet weather. These conditions. I think, have affected 

 the ripening of the apple. You know that after an apple 

 gets up to a certain point it is continually changing its chem- 

 ical nature. There is a process of softening up going on. I 

 think that was brought on by the weather conditions a little 

 prematurely this year, and I think it is largely due to these 

 unusual weather conditions that we had during the summer, 

 and I am borne out in this idea because this trouble seems 

 to have been rather general all over the country. There 

 has been a good deal of complaint most everywhere of sim- 

 ilar trouble. 



President Rogers : Will some gentleman here tell us 

 how to prevent it. We have got the cause of it from Dr. 

 Clinton. Perhaps Dr. Clinton can ansv»'er that part of the 

 question, and tell us how to prevent it. 



Dr. Clinton : T think when we have weather condi- 

 tions of a little different type the effect will be to cut a great 

 deal of that out. The type of weather that we had this past 

 year is naturally going to occur only at rare intervals, but 

 the conditions where the apples are stored and heated up af- 

 ford opportunity- for trouble of that kind. So that if we take 

 good care of the crops to prevent the cold storage scald. I 

 think that we need not be so afraid of it in years to come. 

 I do not think it is likely to amount to anything very 

 serious or cause the growers very much loss, unless we hap- 



