CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. 5 
EXPERIMENTS IN 1912-13. 
The celery used in the experiment in 1912-13 was grown at Ark- 
port and stored at Elmira, N. Y. The experimental lots were har- 
vested in the afternoon of October 18, 1912, and shipped the same 
day by express to Elmira. The following morning they were un- 
loaded and stacked in 
the storage house. 
The crates were piled 
five high, with a 2- 
inch scantling _be- 
tween the crates and 
a 2 to 8 inch airspace 
between the stacks. 
The celery was ex- 
amined three times 
while in storage, and 
at the third examina- 
tion, February 13, 
1913, it was graded. 
The results of this 
grading are shown in 
Table I. 
The sound celery 
PI860HP 
was free from disease, Fic. 2.—Partition crate filled with celery. Note the air 
space, which extends to the bottom of the crate. 
or so slightly diseased | 
that very few of the leaves had to be stripped off in preparing it 
for market. The slightly decayed celery consisted of stalks which © 
were diseased and required so much stripping that the bunches were 
small and contained little foliage. The ordinary ratio of the price 
of these two grades would be about 5 to 3. In other words, if a 
bunch of 12 stalks of sound celery sells for 50 cents, a bunch of 
slightly decayed celery would sell for about 30 cents. 
TABLE I.—Relative keeping quality of celery stored in different types of crates, as 
_ ‘imdicated by the number of stalks of the different grades found in the several 
: types stored at Elmira, N. Y., when inspected on February 13, 1913. 
Total Sound. Slightly decayed. 
Type of crate. paver a 
stalks. | Number.} Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. 
DANICA CMe pte eee Macnee em Ane BBE a | 430 305 70.9 125 29.1 
TPR THAUHOTE oe COGS Sy Meda ULE Ge Lp MRO ol PREG | 416 395 94.95 21 5.05 
HOTT. 5; BR SR ee EF a | 200 194 97.0 6 3.0 
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Table I shows that the partition crate contained 24 per cent and 
the 10-inch crate about 26 per cent more sound celery than the 
