CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. 
13 
SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRATES. 
Table XI shows the average percentage of celery of the four grades 
at the end of the storage period in the six types of crates used in the 
experiments. These figures are the averages for the six lots of celery 
used in the experiments during the four years 1912-13 to 1915-16, 
inclusive. 
Table XI. — Keeping quality of celery, as indicated by the average percentage 
of stalks of the different grades found at the close of the storage period in 
the several types of crates used during the four years, 1912-13 to 1915-16, 
inclusive. 
Type of crate. 
Grades (percent). 
Sound. 
Slightly 
decayed. 
Badly 
decayed. 
Worthless. 
Standard 
Partition 
16- inch (for three years only) 
14-inch (for three years only) 
11-inch solid head (for two years only) 
10-inch (for one year only) 
46.25 
73.10 
74.14 
78.88 
72.66 
97.00 
42.88 
23.12 
22.10 
18.00 
21.83 
3.00 
9.0 
2.9 
3.18 
2.28 
4.75 
1.8 
.73 
.£8 
.70 
An examination of Table XI shows that with the exception of 
the 10-inch crate, which was discarded after the first season because 
too small for practical purposes, the highest percentage of sound 
celery was in the 14-inch crate, followed by the 16-inch, the partition, 
and the 11 -inch solid-head crate, in the order given. It is not quite 
fair to compare the 10-inch crate with the other crates, as it was 
used only one year, and in that particular year the celery in all of 
the crates kept better than in any other year. 
The 14-inch and the 16-inch crates were not used the first year 
and the 11-inch solid-head crates were not used the first two years. 
It will be seen that the 11-inch crate did not give as good results 
as the other small crates and the ventilated crates. This was prob- 
ably due to the fact that the 11-inch crate had solid heads, which 
excluded the air on the ends of the crates. It was observed that the 
stalks of celery in the ends of the 11-inch crate showed more decay 
than those in the ends of the crates which had slatted ends. The 
difference in the keeping quality of celery in the various crates is 
probably due to differences in temperature. 
While celery temperature records were not made for all of the 
crates r those secured for the standard and partition crates in 1914-15 
are of interest. The average temperature of the celery in the stand- 
ard crate was 36.2° F. for the storage period (Oct. 24, 1914, to 
