12 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 168. 



Boxes of Different Construction and in Different Periods of the Storage 

 Season. — The two series of tests, in this connection, were as follows: — 



1. Two lots, each consisting of 6 bushels of Late Howe berries, all picked 

 in the same location on October 22 and all stored on October 23, one lot 

 being placed in new bushel boxes with solid bottoms and solid sides, and 

 the other in new boxes of the same dimensions with solid bottoms and 

 slatted sides. Tables 7 and 8 show how the tests with these two lots of 

 fruit were arranged and carried out. The six boxes of each lot were placed 

 in a single stack. No. 1 being the top box of the stack and No. 6 the bottom 

 one. These berries were weighed in their boxes on October 24, when the 

 tests were begun, on December 18, on January 3, and when the tests 

 ended, on January 10. 



