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BULLETIN 579, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
The difference between the keeping quality of the- celery stored in 
this house and that stored at Hornell is probably due to the condi- 
tions under which it was handled before reaching the storage houses. 
The celery stored at Hornell was shipped from Arkport and had a 
chance to heat before being unloaded, while the celery at Williamson 
was hauled direct from the field to the storage house. 
Table VI.— Relative keeping quality of celery stored at different heights in 
the storage room, as indk-ated by the number of stalks of the different 
grades in the several tiers at Williamson, X. F., when inspected on February 
12, 1915. 
i Total 
Sound. 
Slightly decayed. 
Badly decayed. 
Worthless. 
Tier. number of 
; stalks. 
Num- 1 Per 
ber. cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Fer 
cent. 
Num- Per 
ber. cent. 
First (bottom) 284 
Second 273 
Third 268 
Fourth 271 
Fifth (top) j 278 
188 
160 
161 
147 
in 
62.7 
58.6 
60.0 
54.2 
40.0 
87 
70 
84 
107 
124 
30.6 
25.6 
31.3 
39.1 
44.6 
11 
31 
17 
16 
41 
4.6 
11.4 
6.3 
5.9 
14.7 
8 
12 
6 
2 
2 
2.7 
4.4 
2.2 
.7 
The difference between the keeping quality of celery in the bottom 
and in the top tiers was not so great at Williamson as at Hornell, due 
probably to the location of the refrigerating pipes. In the William- 
son house all of the pipes are overhead, while in the Hornell house 
they are on the side walls and over the alleyways. There is less dif- 
ference in temperature at different heights in the rooms of a house 
with overhead refrigeration than in a house where the refrigration 
is on the side walls and over the alleys. 
EXPERIMENTS IN 1915-16. 
The celery used in the 1915-16 experiments was grown at William- 
son and stored at Williamson and Hornell, X. Y. Both lots of celery 
were grown in the same field, handled in the same way. and harvested 
on October 21, 1915. 
The following types of crates were used both at Hornell and at 
Williamson: (1) Standard crate. (2) partition-ventilated crate. (3) 
16-inch crate. (4) 14-inch crate. (5) 11-inch solid-head crate. 
CELERY STORED AT HORNELL. 
The celery stored at Hornell was loaded into a refrigerator car in 
the forenoon of October 22 and shipped the same day. The car was 
iced on October 20, reiced at Bochester, and reached Hornell on 
October 25, with the bunkers from one-half to two-thirds full of ice. 
The celery was unloaded in the forenoon of October 26 and piled 
immediatelv. 
