CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. 19 
bottom tiers in the Williamson house was only about 30 per cent, 
whereas in the Hornell house the difference was 50 per cent. A 
possible reason for this difference is that in the Williamson house 
there was a more even distribution of temperature. It should be 
borne in mind, however, that the results in the two storage houses 
during 1914-15 and 1915-16 are not exactly comparable, as the celery 
was not graded at the same time. The celery stored at Hornell in 
1914-15 was graded on January 22, 1915, and that stored at the same 
place during the past season was graded on December 20, 1915. The _ 
celery stored at Williamson during the two seasons was graded on 
February 12, 1915, and on January 19, 1916. In other words, the 
celery stored at Williamson was kept in storage nearly a month 
longer than that stored at Hornell. It is believed that the drip from 
the pipes in the Williamson house had more influence on the keeping 
quality of celery in the top tier of crates than the temperature. In 
other words, the difference between the celery in the top and bottom 
tiers of crates is due more to moisture in the top tier than to the dif- 
ference in temperature at different heights. It is usually possible to 
so regulate the temperature that there is very little drip from the 
pipes, but during the season of 1915-16 this was not accomplished in 
the room where the experimental celery was stored. During the 
previous storage season the room was dry nearly all the time, and 
there was not a great difference in the amount of decay in the differ- 
ent tiers. There was a greater difference between the amount of 
sound celery in the fourth and fifth tiers than between that in the 
first and fourth tiers, as is shown in Table XIII. 
The figures already given to show the difference in keeping quality 
_ of celery stored at different heights in the storage room do not show 
the variation due to the different types of crates. It seems desirable 
to compare the keeping quality of celery stored at the same heights in 
the different types of crates and at different heights in the same type 
of crates. Tables XIV and XV give these data for two lots of 
celery, one lot stored at Hornell and the other at Williamson, N. Y., 
during the storage period of 1914-15. 
Table XIV shows that there was not a great difference in the dif- 
ferent types of crates in the first tier, except in the partition crate. 
The high percentage of sound celery in the partition crate is due to 
the fact that in the Williamson house the celery in this crate was 
practically perfect, due to some unknown cause. In the fifth, or top, 
tier there was the greatest difference in the keeping quality of celery 
in the various types of crates. The partition crate contained 44.2 
per cent more sound celery than the standard crate, the 16-inch crate 
61.1 per cent more, and the 14-inch crate 76.9 per cent more. The 
standard crate contained a much larger percentage of badly decayed 
celery than any of the other crates. 
