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BULLETIN 579, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 
CELERY STORED AT WILLIAMSON. 
The celery grown and stored at Williamson was harvested on 
October 21, hauled direct to the storage house early in the morning 
of October 22, and piled exactly like that in the Hornell house. This 
celery was examined in December, but was not sorted until January 
19, 1916. The temperature maintained in the storage room was not 
as uniform as it had been in 1914-15, so that the celery did not keep 
quite as well. On several occasions there was considerable drip 
from the pipes, and after this the temperature was reduced to below 
the freezing point, which froze the outside stalks. The results of 
the sorting of this celery on January 19, 1916, are given in Table IX. 
Table IX. — Relative keeping quality of celery stored in different types of crates, 
as indicated by the number of stalks of the different grades in the several 
types stored at Williamson, N. Y., when inspected on January 19, 1916. 
Total 
number of 
stalks. 
Sound. 
Slightly decayed. 
Badly decayed. 
Worthless. 
Type.of crate. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber! 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Standard 
334 
324 
284 
225 
191 
130 
200 
176 
150 
128 
39.9 
61.7 
62.0 
66.6 
67.0 
172 
108 
91 
66 
47 
51.5 
33.3 
32.0 
29.3 
24.6 
24 
13 
14 
7 
14 
7.2 
4.0 
4.9 
3.1 
7.3 
8 
3 
3 
2 
2 
2.4 
Partition 
.9 
16-inch 
14-inch 
11-inch 
1.0 
.9 
1.0 
It will be observed that the highest percentage of sound celery was 
in the small crates, although the partition-ventilated crate gave 
almost as good results. 
The difference in the keeping quality of celery stored at different 
heights in the Williamson storage room is shown in Table X. 
Table X. — Relative keeping quality of celery stored at different heights in the 
storage room, as indicated by the number of stalks of the different grades in 
the several tiers at Williamson, N. Y., when inspected on January 19, 1916. 
Total 
number of 
stalks. 
Sound. 
Slightly decayed. 
Badly decayed. 
Worthless. 
Tier. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- j Per 
ber. cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- Per 
ber. cent. 
First (bottom) 
263 
277 
259 
291 
268 
185 
190 
165 
154 
90 
70.4 
68.6 
63.7 
53.0 
33.6 
72 
77 
78 
116 
141 
27.3 
27.8 
30.1 
40.0 
52.6 
6 
10 
12 
15 
29 
2.3 
3.6 
4.6 
5.1 
10.8 


Third 
4 1.5 
Fourth . . 
6 2 
Fifth (top) 
8 3 
A comparison of Tables VI and X shows that there was a greater 
difference in the keeping quality of the celery in the top and bottom 
tiers in 1915-16 than in 1914—15. This was probably due to the fact 
that there was more drip from the pipes and more variation in tem- 
perature in 1915-16 than in the preceding year. 
