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barrel and "beginning to get soft and the skin was begin- 

 ning to ttirn dark. The fruit on top was still firm and 

 of a better oolor. The fruit that was in a box of about 

 half the size was not half so bad and that in a very 

 asiall package half-bushel or less, was all still firm* 

 By the latter part of Deo, the fruit in the barrels' was 

 no good at all, yet the smaller packages still remained 

 in good condition with the exception of a few specimens, 



i:rnT.lIEl;TC!E OF THE WEIAPEER III 

 HIGEHER TEMPiERATUHES, 



To try the influence of a wrapper in higher temper- 

 atures, I placed a sample of each method of wrapping 

 in a room where the temperature remged all the way from 

 40 to 70 degrees. One month after this fruit was put in 

 there, upon examination I found it all perfectly ripe, 

 a lot of it soft and turning a dark color, I put it 

 back and in three weeks later, seven weeks from the time 

 it was stored I examined it the s oond time and found 

 the following results. 



