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21, 1914, was higher than that stored in the same house on October 
26, 1915. The latter lot of celery was shipped to Hornell in a re- 
frigerator car which had been iced before loading and was reiced in 
transit, while the 1914 lot was shipped in a box car and became 
somewhat heated -before being unloaded. 
While the temperature records given in this paper are not as 
complete as desired, a study of all the charts in connection with the 
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Fic. 9.—Diagram showing the temperature of the air at different heights in the storage 
room for the storage period from October 21, 1914, to February 8, 1915. 
keeping quality of celery in different types of crates and at dif- 
ferent heights in the storage house shows quite clearly that there is 
a close relation between the temperature and the deterioration of 
the crop in storage. It will be noticed that the temperature was 
higher in the standard crate than in the partition crate (figs. 4 and 
5) and that the celery and air temperature near the top of the room 
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Fic. 10.—Diagram showing the drop in the temperature of celery in the center of stand- 
ard crates at different heights in the storage room for the cooling period, October 26 
to 30, 1915. Note that the temperature in the bottom crate began to drop almost 
immediately. 
was always higher than near the bottom of the room (figs. 7 and 8). 
In every instance the largest proportion of decay was where the 
temperature was the highest. For this reason celery should be stored 
in crates in which there is the least difference between the air and 
celery temperature. In a large crate without a ventilator the tem- 
