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fruit and placed it under the same conditions as that 

 which I had stored. HWien this fruit was "brought in, it 

 had the appearance of perfectly ripe fruit, yet it was 

 still finsEU The weather had "been rather warm, during 

 the time the temperatxare ranged anywhere from 55 to 75 

 degrees P. in the middle of the day. After these pears 

 had been in the cellar for ahout three weeks they began 

 to get soft and in a very short while rapid degay set in. 

 And in a few days more the entire lot was worthless. The 

 delay of ten days in storing this fruit made a difference 

 of at least two weeks in the period of keeping and the 

 a,-ppwuraja.ae of it was vmdesirable all the time. 



KSS'ERIMMT WITH THE PACKACS. 



When these pears were stored in the cellar, we had 

 several barrels full and a great many stored in boxes of 

 various sizes. As I had been reading results of exper- 

 iments with different kinds and sizes of packages, I de- 

 cided to watch this fruit and see the results. The pears 

 were put away about the tenth of October. The latter 

 part of Hovember I examined the fruit in the barrels 

 and foiAnd it t« be perfectly ripe in the center of the 



