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BULLETIN 579, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
put on the market the same day. The price received for the 127 large 
crates averaged $3.93 per crate, and for the 56 small crates $2,576 
per crate. The grower of this celery was at the Xew York market 
on January 10, when it was sold, and stated that the buyers seemed 
particularly pleased with the small crates, because of their size and 
the good condition of the celery they contained. The increased price 
received for the celery in the small crates was probably due partly 
to the fact that it was in better condition than that in the standard 
crates and partly to the fact that the small crate was of a more con- 
venient size to handle. The small crate should be in demand for 
restaurants and retail stores. 
COMPARISON OF THE KEEPING QUALITY OF CELERY STORED AT DIFFERENT 
HEIGHTS IN THE STORAGE ROOM. 
No record was made of the difference in the keeping quality of 
celery stored at different heights in the storage room during the 
first two years of the experiments, and as the two storage houses in 
which the celery was stored during the last two years have different 
methods of piping, the results are tabulated separately. In the 
Hornell house the refrigerating pipes are located on the side walls 
near the ceiling and over the passageways, while in the Williamson 
house the pipes are distributed on the ceiling. The results for the 
past two years are given in Table XIII. It should be remembered 
that each tier consists of one crate each of the different types. 
Table XIII. — Keeping quality of celery stored at different heights in the storage 
houses at Hornell and at Williamson, N. Y„ as indicated by the average per- 
centage of celerif of different grades in the several tiers, for the two years, 
1914-15 and 1915-16. 
Grades at Hornell, N. Y. (per cent). 
Grades at Williamson, N. Y. (percent). 
Tier. 
Sound. 
Slightly 
decayed. 
Badly 
decayed. 
Worth- 
less. 
Sound. 
Slightly 
decayed. 
Badly 
decayed. 
Worth- 
less. 
First (bottom) 
Second 
92.75 
75.65 
70.45 
59.85 
42.00 
6.79 
24.00 
28.60 
39.20 
39.80 
0.33 
.33 
.45 
.95 
17.95 




.25 
66.55 
63.60 
61.85 
53.60 
36.80 
28.95 
26.70 
30.70 
39.55 
48.60 
3.45 
7.50 
5.45 
5.50 
12.75 
1.35 
2.20 
Third 
1.85 
Fourth 
1.35 
Fifth (top) 
1.85 
Table XIII shows that there was considerable difference in the 
keeping quality of celery stored in the different tiers at Hornell, the 
bottom tier being the best and the top the worst — in fact, the bottom 
tier contained 50 per cent more sound celery than the top tier. 
A comparison of the figures in Table XIII shows that there was 
not as much difference in the keeping quality of celery stored at dif- 
ferent heights in the storage house at Williamson as there was in the 
Hornell house. The difference in sound celery between the top and 
