UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 956 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



August 17, 1921 



A STUDY OF THE FACTORS 



AFFECTING TEMPERATURE CHANGES 



IN THE CONTAINER DURING THE 



CANNING OF FRUITS AND 



VEGETABLES 



By 



C. A. MAGOON and C. W. CULPEPPER 

 Office of Horticultural and Pomological Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Basis of the Study 1 



Review of the Literature 2 



Methods and Apparatus 6 



Preliminary Experiments 10 



Page 



Single-Period Processing 17 



Intermittent Processing 45 



Summary . 53 



Literature Cited 55 



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WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1921 



