402 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
COMPOSITION OF APPLES son of the Virginia Expe1iment Station 
The following tables showing the com- Apples vary in composition with the 
position of certain varieties of apples are variety and slightly with the environment 
the averages taken from more elaborate This variation determines to some extent 
tables worked out by Alweod and David- the uses to which they shall be put 
Table No. 1—Pereentages by Weights of Juice and Pomace of 
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Juice | Pomace | Loss 
Summer Apples—8 varieties .. . 53.20 43 .34 3 46 
Autumn Apples—I1 varieties. 53.92 43 .95 213 
Winter Apples—19 varieties | 52 16 45.59 2 25 
Crab Apples—7 varieties Lae 57.31 41 42 1 27 
Table No. 2~—Analysis of Juice from Same Samples 
Grams per 100 C. C. 
Specific; Total Total |Reducing) Cane | Acid as! Tannin 
Gravity | Solids | Sugar | Sugar | Sugar Sulphuric 
Summer Apples.. .| 1 049 | 12.33 9.53 5.85 3.50 
Fall Apples. .| 1 054 13.76 10.66 6.93 3.53 0 36 | 0 069 
Winter Apples. .  .| 1 062 14.29 11.48 7.04 4.16 0 41 0 050 
Crab Apples. . | 1 062 15.69 11.71 8.08 3.45 050 | 0 122 
Table No. 3—Analysis of Pomace, Same Samples 
Grams per 100 Grams 
Moisture| Ash Total |Reducing) Cane | Acid as | Tannin 
Sugar | Sugar | Sugar (Sulphuric 
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Summer Apples...... 83 .29 0.37 8.66 5.49 3.00 0.33 
Fall Apples.... .. 80.81 0.37 9.12 6.32 2.66 0.32 0 055 
Winter Apples.... .| 80.98 0.35 9.34 6.13 3.10 0.39 0 127 
Crab Apples... .  .| 70.85 0.48 10.25 6.85 3.28 0.51 0.127 
Table No. 4—Sugars and Acids in Whole Fruit, Same Samples 
Grams per 100 Grams 
Total Total | Per cent 
Sugar | Sugar | of Sugar 
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Pomace |! Juice | Pomace 
Total |Reducing; Cane 
Sugar | Sugar | Sugar 
Summer Apples......) 9.11 5.63 
3.24 4.64 4.64 45.58 
Fall Apples.......... 9.94 6.58 3.11 4,38 5.42 44 08 
Winter Apples. ..... 10.47 6.57 3.70 5.94 4.29 40.77 
Crab Apples....... .| 11.10 7.54 3.38 4.26 6.73 38.33 
