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Table 12. — Summary of "anise" inspections, 1935-42 l 



ANALYSIS BY YEARS 





Carlots inspected 



Percent- 

 age of 

 carlots 

 inspected 

 showing 

 decay 



Average decay per carlot ins 



pected 



Year or month 



Percent- 

 age of 

 New 

 York 

 City rail 

 unloads 



Total 



Total of 

 decays 



Watery 

 soft rot 2 



Bacterial 

 soft rot 3 



Other 

 decay 



1935 



Percent 

 66 

 53 

 93 

 38 

 42 

 38 

 32 

 31 



Number 

 31 

 60 

 88 

 35 

 50 

 48 

 46 

 19 



Percent 

 42 

 60 

 65 



77 

 82 

 77 

 89 

 53 



Percent 

 3.4 

 5.2 

 11.9 

 11.8 

 11.3 

 10.5 

 8.3 

 6.5 



Percent 

 2.0 

 2.2 

 5.5 

 3.9 

 6.7 

 7. 7 

 6.3 

 6.5 



Percent 

 1.4 

 3.0 

 5.9 

 7.0 

 4.6 

 2.8 

 2.0 

 



Percent 

 



1936 - - 







1937 .. .- .- --- -- 



.5 



1938 



.9 



1939 . . 







1940 







1941 







1942- . - 











Total 



47 



377 



69 



9.2 



5.1 



3.9 



.2 







ANALYSIS BY MONTHS 



January 



February.. 



March 



April 



May 



November. 

 December,. 



Total. _.. 



52 



65 



75 



9.9 



4.3 



5.1 



54 



39 



95 



20.1 



11.9 



8.2 



45 



57 



84 



8.3 



5.3 



3.0 



34 



30 



57 



3.1 



1.3 



1.8 



17 



1 



100 



10.0 







10.0 



64 



21 



62 



11.2 



6.8 



4.4 



48 



164 



59 



7.4 



4.3 



2.9 



47 



377 



69 



9.2 



5.1 



3.9 



1 All from California. 



Caused by Sclerotinia spp. 



3 Caused by Erwinia carotovora. 



Artichokes (Globe) 



Over 1,800 carlots of globe artichokes, all rail shipments from 

 California, were unloaded during the 7-year period. Inspections 

 were made on 430 carlots, or approximately 23 percent of the unloads. 

 Distribution of decay within them was as follows: 



Carlots in indicated 

 decay class 



Carlots in indicated 

 decay class 



Decay class (percent): Number Percent Decay class (percent) — Number Percent 



0. 

 Trace-4. 



5-9 



10-14__. 

 15-19__. 

 20-24__. 

 25-29__. 



64 



165 



105 



43 



24 



13 



4 



14. 9 



38.4 



24.4 



10.0 



5.6 



3.0 



. 9 



Continued 

 30-34. 

 35-39. 

 40-44. 

 45-49. 

 50-54. 



1.4 

 .7 

 .5 





 . 2 



Decay, averaging 7.4 percent per carlot showing decay, was found 

 in 366 carlots, or 85 percent of those inspected. Distribution of 

 decay by types was as follows: 



Distribution 



Kind of decay: 



Gray mold rot. 

 Other decay 



Carlots (number) 

 362 

 5 



Average per carlot (percent) 



7.4 



9. 2 



A summary of globe artichoke inspections is given in table 13. 

 Decay, chiefly gray mold rot, w^as the highest (9.7 percent) in 1941 

 and least (0.8 percent) in 1935, with an average of 6.4 percent for the 



