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Table XCIV 

 keeping quality of mature versus immature fruit: rome beauty ' 

 four-year average. (after ramsey, markell, mckay and bird) 



327. Effect of over-maturity. — As mentioned before, it 

 is very detrimental to the keeping quality of fruit to allow 

 it to remain on the tree after it is ready to harvest, i. e., hard 

 ripe, or to delay placing it in storage immediately after it is 

 picked. 8ome conclusive experiments have been conducted 



1 Percentage bad scald and decay at withdrawal from storage, and 

 after a holding period of ten days under market conditions. Time 

 in storage at first withdrawal, 3J^ months; second, middle of February; 

 third, late March; and fourth. May. 



