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in tight oars and detained in transit which, soon TDeoome 



charged with hot air emd cause the fruit to become 

 moist, the ripening goes on rapidly and the fruit may 

 already he near the point of deterioration or may have 

 commenced to deteriorate from scald, mellowness or some 

 other defect when the storage house is reached. While 

 on the contrary if the weather is cool dtiring the ship- 

 ping period or if the fruit is shipped in refrigerator 

 cars there may not be any serious injury done. The fol- 

 lowing dealing with this subject is taken from some of 

 the experiments that were carried out by the Department 

 of Agriculture,* 



" In the fall of I90I, when the weathJar in western 

 Uew York was cool there was no apparent injury from de- 

 laying the storage of a large number of varieties two 

 weeks and then shipping the fruit to Buffalo, the tran- 

 sit occupying from one to three days. There was also 

 no apparent injury to the fruit from Virginia treated in 

 a similar mafener. But in south-western Missouri, where 

 it was warmer the apples delayed two weeks before stor- 

 ing were seriously injured in their commercial keeping 

 q.iiallties," 



" The results accomplished during 1902 have been of 



* S. H. Pulton, bulletin 48, 



