CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. 
11 
On December 20, 1915, the celery was inspected, with the results 
given in Table VII. The condition of the celery on this date was 
about the same as that of the 1911 crop after being held in storage 
one month longer. 
Table VII. — Relative keeping quality of celery stored in different types of 
crates, as indicated by the number of stalks of the different grades found in 
the several types stored at Hornell, N. Y„ when inspected on December 20, 
1915. 
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 . . . 
340 
320 
286 
230 
193 
153 
246 
243 
207 
168 
45.0 
76.9 
85.0 
90.0 
87.0 
163 
70 
38 
22 
21 
48.0 
21.8 
13.2 
9.6 
10.9 
24 
4 
5 
1 
4 
7.0 
1.25 
1.8 
.4 
2.0 






Partition . 

16-inch 

14-inch . . . 

11-inch 

Table VII shows that the celery in the 14-inch crate kept the best 
and that the three types of small crates and the partition crate gave 
much better results than the standard crate. The celery was left 
in the storage house until January 21, 1916; but as there had been 
no other celery in the room for two or three weeks it was frosted. 
The difference in the keeping quality of celery stored at different 
heights in the Hornell storage room is shown in Table VIII. 
Table VIII. — 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 Hornell, N. Y., when inspected on December 20, 
1915. 
Total 
Sound. 
Slightly decayed. 
Badly decayed. 
Worthless. 
Tier. 
number of 
stalks. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
First (bottom) 
Second 
270 
276 
268 
281 
274 
258 
228 
196 
190 
145 
95.55 
82.60 
72.10 
68.60 
52.90 
11 
47 
71 
88 
97 
4.08 
17.00 
26.50 
31.30 
35.40 
1 
1 
1 
3 
32 
0.37 
.36 
.40 
1.10 
11.70 







Third 

Fourth 
o 
Fifth (top) 

It will be noticed that there was considerable difference in the 
keeping quality of the celery in the different tiers. The highest 
percentage of sound celery was in the bottom tier, and the lowest 
percentage in the top tier. The difference, however, was not so great 
in 1915-16 as in 1914—15, due to the fact that there was less celery in 
the room during the latter part of the storage period of 1915-16 
than in the preceding year. 
