Special Report 



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Grimes began to show " scald," Wine Sap made the best record for keep- 

 ing and was in perfect condition up to Nov. ist. It was followed by the 

 Willow Twig, Ben Davis and Gano. York and Huntsman are poor cold 

 storage apples in my experience at four expositions. They do not stand 

 up and scald before the early winter market period. x\bout July istthe 

 Grimes began to come out of storage showing some scald which increased 

 up to about Aug. 15th when the supply was exhausted. 



I exhibited Jonathan of 1903 and 1904 at the same time also Ben Davis, 

 Willow and Winesap. I put up apples for the exhibits of Illinois at Omaha, 

 Buffalo, Charleston and St. Louis and have had charge of these exhibits. 

 From my observation and experience I am of the opinion that the keeping 

 of any apple depends largely on the proper maturing ; the handling from the 

 tree to storage ; also it is important that the temperature be kept uniform 

 and that packages be not moved or transferred from one part of storage to 

 another as is sometimes done by storage people. Wrapping with paper pre- 

 vents scalding, that is to say apples not wrapped like York and Huntsman 

 will show scald in 30 or 60 days while those wrapped will come out in 

 good shape much later. Red varieties such as Jonathan last much longer. 



