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variety, the first picking was free from decay oi' other storage 

 troubles, while the latter picking had developed 9.1 per cent 

 decay. After being held outside for ten days, approximating 

 the usual length of time from storage to consumption, the 

 decay in the late picking increased to 25 per cent. The first 

 picking developed only 1.3 per cent in the same period. The 

 later inspections are well past the commercial limit for the 

 variety, and the decay is correspondingly heavier, though 

 still consistently less in the first picking. 



328. Effect of delayed storage. — As has been seen, it is 

 important to have fruit at the proper stage of maturity when 

 picked, but it is also important that it be stored immediately 

 or its keeping is impaired correspondingly. In the experi- 

 ments here referred to, the fruit was picked at the height of 

 the season for the variety and a portion stored in a ware- 

 house in a temperature but little below that of the outside 

 air. Other lots of the same fruit were immediately placed in 

 cold storage. In studying the tabulated results, it should 

 be added that the fruit immediately stored "was always 

 brighter, less yellow, and usually firmer than the delayed." 

 It will depend much on the season as to the extent of damage 

 which results from delay in storage. 



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IMMEDIATE VERSUS DELAYED STORAGE 

 FOUR-YEAR AVERAGE. JONATHAN. (AFTER RAMSEY, ET AL.) 



