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in the tables for lemons, due to the difficulty in getting samples of 

 uniform ripeness. By January 30 the frozen lemons in storage had 

 dried out so completely that it was no longer possible to get enough 

 juice to determine the specific gravity. At this time twenty lemons 

 which were picked on January 13 yielded a total of only thirty-one 

 cubic centimeters of juice. 



TABLE 7. Average Specific Gravity of Juice. 



NAVEL ORANGES 



EUREKA LEMONS 



(a) Fruit picked on January 13th. 



(b) Successive new lots picked on date given. 



TABLE 8. Per Cent Total Sugar in Juice* 



N SVEL ORANGES 



Date 

 1/14 



18 



22 



26 



30 

 2/ 7 



15 



23 



3/ 3 

 7 



15 

 Average 



(a) Fruit picked on January 13th. 



(b) Successive new lots picked on date given. 



* The sugars were determined by Bertrand'a method. 



EUREKA LEMONS 



DIVISION OF SUblROPm HOMICUUUPE 

 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 



