CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. 
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ture, and the experimental celery was badly frozen. For this reason 
it was not graded a second time. 
Table IV. — 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 
each of the five tiers of crates at Homell, N. Y., when inspected on January 
22, 1915. 
Total 
number of 
stalks. 
Sound. 
Slightly decayed. 
Badly decayed. 
Worthless. 
Tier. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
First (bottom) 
428 
412 
426 
414 
434 
386 
283 
293 
216 
135 
90.2 
68.7 
68.8 
52.1 
31.1 
41 
128 
131 
195 
192 
9.5 
31.0 
30.7 
47.1 
44.2 

1 
2 
3 
105 
0.3 
.3 
.5 
.8 
24.2 




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Third 

Fourth . . . 

Fifth (top) 
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CELERY GROWN AT WILLIAMSON. 
The celery grown and stored at Williamson was harvested and 
packed in the afternoon of October 23, 1914, and hauled to the storage 
house the same afternoon. This celery was large, free from disease, 
and blanched nearly enough for market. 
Five crates each of five different types were used, as follows: (1) 
Standard crate, (2) partition- ventilated crate, (3) 16-inch crate, (4) 
14-inch crate, (5) 11-inch solid-head crate. 
The crates were of the same length and depth, the difference in size 
being in width only. Each lot of five crates was piled five high, with 
3 or 4 inches between the crates in the piles. The celery was exam- 
ined on January 20, 1915, but was not graded until February 12. 
The results of this grading are given in Tables V and VI. 
Table V. — 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 Williamson, N. Y., when inspected on February 12, 
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. 
383 
334 
260 
229 
181 
146 
207 
152 
146 
116 
38.0 
61.4 
58.4 
63.7 
64.0 
163 
102 
89 
65 
53 
42.5 
30.5 
34.2 
28.0 
30.0 
61 
20 
14 
12 
9 
16.0 
6.0 
5.3 
5.2 
5.0 
11 
5 
5 
6 
3 
3 4 
Partition 
1.5 
16-inch. . 
1 9 
2.6 
1 6 
Table V shows that the best results were secured in the 11 -inch 
crate and the poorest in the standard crate. The bottom crate in 
lot No. 2 was perfect and brought up the average for that lot. Why 
this particular crate was so much better than any other is not known. 
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