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a part of h.is crop Toaok for a later season. Thus the 

 Cold Storage was looked to for this purpose. 



The faot that in most climates vegetable and ani- 

 mal products were robbed of the principal of life de- 

 cay rapidly, in warm temperatures and resist decay in 

 cold atmospheres had, of course, been known through alj 

 history. But the value of the practical application 

 of that great truth of ITatiire in the affairs of every 

 day life had not been understood until the present gen- 

 eration. But now it has been demonstrated that great 

 store houses, holding thousands of bushels of select 

 fruit can be filled with cold air eind so steadily and 

 evenlj'' held at a low temperature that the fruit, in 

 its natural state, can be kept in almost perfect con- 

 dition nearly all the year round. 



Apples, like all other products, if left to tliem- 

 selves, will undergo a series of changes to which the 

 term decay is applied. The decay, or rotting of ap- 

 ples is caused chiefly by fungi, of which there are 

 three species most coi.uionly the cause of apple decay. 



Black Rot, in this the apple shows on the surface 

 one or more brown spots vxhich gradually'' spread until 

 tli« whole apple is involved. Later the surface oe- 



