TAYLOR, Chief, and the Bureau of Markets, 
CHARLES J. BRAND, Chief 
Washington, D. C. v September 5, 1917 
CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS.' 
By H. C. THomMpPsSoN, 
Horticulturist, Office of Horticultural and Pomological Investigations. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. Page 
AE BOCUICTLOM Ss ran Sate hs OM esc cn Soe 1S SumMimanyOnneSULLS He eee eee ieee ee eee 13 
Bre liminanysstudiyem sea ee hase Saas 3 | Comparison of different types of crates... 13 
Objects and outline of the experiments. . .--. 3 Estimated cash value of celery when 
Experiments in 1912-13.............-..-.---- 5 stored in different types of crates. ._._. 15 
Experimentsin 1913-14............-22------- 6 Comparative cost of crates............... 15 
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Comparison of the keeping quality of cel- 
ery stored at different heights in the 
Experimentsin 1914-15...........--..------- 
Celery grown at Arkport........-....-.- 
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Celery grown at Williamson -......----- 9 STORAGE RO OM sa ears iy Nee ee a eh ate 18 
Experiments in 1915-16_......-..--..--..-.-- TORS gmmmtanyyae en's aus ee meee hymns eh 24 
Celery stored at Hornell................- 10 
Celery stored at Williamson...........-- 12 
INTRODUCTION. 
Celery is one of the important truck crops grown in the United 
States. The farm value of the crop of 1909 was $3,922,848, of which 
crop eight States, New York, Michigan, Florida, California, Massa- 
chusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, produced about 86 per 
cent. The six northern States mentioned produce about two-thirds 
of the celery grown in the United States, and as a considerable por- 
tion of this is stored for a period of one to three months the merchan- 
1The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. C. C. Locke, of Arkport, 
N. Y., Mr. Henry Greffrath, South Lima, N. Y., and Mr. W. P. Rodgers, Williamson, 
N. Y., for their courtesy in allowing him to select from their fields the celery used in 
these experiments ; also to the managers of the Hygeia Refrigerating Co., Elmira, N. Y., 
the Hornell Ice & Storage Co., Hornell, N. Y., and the Williamson Ice & Storage Co., 
Williamson, N. Y., in whose houses the experimental lots of celery were stored, for yvalu- 
able assistance rendered. 
Note.—The fruit and vegetable handling, transportation, and storage investigations 
formerly administered in the Office of Horticultural and Pomological Investigations of 
the Bureau of Plant Industry are now being prosecuted jointly and cooperatively by the 
Bureau of Plant Industry and the Bureau of Markets, 
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