CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. Ty 
On December 20, 1915, the celery was inspected, with the results 
given in Table VII. The condition of the celery on this date was 
about the same as that of the 1914 crop after being held in storage 
one month longer. 
Taste VIl.—Relative keeping quality of celery stored in different types of 
crates, as indicated by the number of stalks of the different grades found in 
the several types stored at Hornell, N. Y., when inspected on December 20, 
1915. 
| Sound. Slightly decayed.| Badly decayed. Worthless. 
Total SiER 
Type ofcrate. number of 
stalks. | Num- Per Num- Per Num- Per Num- Per 
ber. cent. ber. cent. ber. cent. ber. cent. 
Standard 222... 340 153 45.0 163 48.0 24 7.0 0 0 
PATON: 22 =: ==. 320 246 76.9 70 21.8 4 1h 25S 0 0 
UGSis (Gees ae ae 286 243 85.0 38 13.2 5 1.8 0 0 
PEAITICH ey eee foe 230 207 90.0 22 9.6 1 4 0 0 
Pinch esse 2s 193 168 7.0 21 10.9 4 2.0 0 0 
Table VII shows that the celery in the 14-inch crate kept the best 
and that the three types of small crates and the partition crate gave 
much better results than the standard crate. The celery was left 
in the storage house until January 21, 1916; but as there had been 
no other celery in the room for two or three weeks it was frosted. 
The difference in the keeping quality of celery stored at different 
heights in the Hornell storage room is shown in Table VIII. 
TasLE VIII.—Relative keeping quality of celery stored at different heights in 
the storage room, as indicated by the number of stalks of the different 
grades in the several tiers, at Hornell, N. Y., when inspected on December 20, 
1915. 
Sound. Slightly decayed. | Badly decayed. Worthless. 
| Total | | 
Tier. number of | 
stalks. Num- Per Num- Per Num- Per Num- Per 
ber. cent. ber. cent. ber. cent. ber. cent. 
First (bottom)..... 270 258 95.55 11 "4.08 1 0.37 0 0 
Necondierns ne. 2 276 228 82. 60 47 17.00 1 -36 0 0 
pind eee oe es 268 196 72.10 71 26.50 1 -40 0 0 
Lo) poo ol eee 281 190 68. 60 88 31.30 3 1.10 0 0 
Fifth (top).---...-- 274 145 52.90 97 35. 40 32 11.70 0 0 
It will be noticed that there was considerable difference in the 
keeping quality of the celery in the different tiers. The highest 
percentage of sound celery was in the bottom tier, and the lowest 
percentage in the top tier. The difference, however, was not so great 
in 1915-16 as in 1914-15, due to the fact that there was less celery in 
the room during the latter part of the storage period of 1915-16 
than in the preceding year. 
