6 BULLETIN 579, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
standard crate. The difference in the amount of decay in different 
parts of the standard crate was very noticeable, while in the other 
crates there was very little difference. 
EXPERIMENTS IN 1913-14. 
The celery used in the experiment in 1913-14 was grown at South 
Lima and stored at Elmira, N. Y. It was harvested October 29, 1913, 
loaded into a box car the same day, and shipped to Elmira, where it 
was unloaded and put in storage the following morning. The 
weather was cold when this celery was harvested, and it reached the 
storage house in good condition. The crates, 10 in each lot, were 
piled in the house in the same way as those stored in 1912-13. 
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Fie. 3.—Three different types of crates used in the celery storage experiments: The 
14-inch crate on the left, the partition crate in the center, and the 16-inch crate on 
the right. 
After the celery had been in storage about 24 months, half of it 
was sold without grading. Notes, however, were taken on its appear- 
ance, and while none of it had decayed to any considerable extent, 
there was a great deal of difference in the color of the foliage in 
the several crates. The tops of the celery in the standard crate 
had turned yellow, and decay had started in the center of the crate. 
The dealer who handled this shipment stated that the celery in the 
standard crate was worth from 10 to 15 per cent less than that in the 
partition crates and in the smaller crates. 
The remaining five crates of each lot of celery were taken out on 
February 18, 1914, and carefully graded. The results are given in 
Table II. 
