8 BULLETIN 579, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Lot 4- — Partition-ventilated crate. 
Lot 5. — 16-inch crate. 
Lot 6. — 14-inch crate. 
Lots 3, 4, 5, and 6 were harvested on October 20, while the celery 
was dry, and loaded immediately into a box car. The car, which 
was left on the siding until the last of the celery was loaded, was 
delivered to the storage house the same evening, October 20, but it 
was not unloaded until the following afternoon, about 5 o'clock. 
This celery was graded on January 22, 1915, with the results given 
in Table III. 
Table III. — 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 lots stored at Hornell, N. Y., when inspected on January 22, 1915. 
Lot No. and type of crate. 
Total 
number 
of 
stalks. 
Sound. 
Slightly 
decayed. 
Badly 
decayed. 
Worthless. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
Num- 
ber. 
Per 
cent. 
1, standard 
429 
391 
412 
348 
272 
199 
167 
195 
274 
235 
243 
46.7 
41.7 
47.3 
78.7 
86.4 
93.1 
193 
174 
195 
70 
37 
18 
45.3 
46.2 
47.3 
20.1 
13.6 
6.9 
37 
49 
21 
4 


. 
8.0 
12.1 
5.0 
1 1 

1 
1 


2, standard 
.2 
3, standard 
.2 

5, 16-inch 


6, 14-inch 
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Table III shows that there was little difference in the keeping 
quality of the celery in the first three lots. Lot No. 2, which was 
exposed to the sun for about five hours, had the smallest percentage 
of sound celery. By comparing lots 3, 4, 5, and 6 it will be seen that 
the partition crate and the two smaller crates gave much better re- 
sults than the standard crate. The 14-inch crate gave the best re- 
sults, followed by the 16-inch crate and the partition crate in the 
order given. In the standard crate, less than one-half of the celery 
was sound, while in the 14-inch crate 93 per cent was of that grade. 
Table TV shows the relative keeping quality of celery stored at 
different heights in the Hornell storage house. Each of the six lots 
was Spiled in a separate stack, five crates high. These piles were 
2 to 3 inches apart, and the crates in each pile were separated by 
2 by 2 inch scantlings. The tiers as given in Table IV included 
one crate from each of the six lots. 
It will be noticed that the celery in the bottom tier kept much 
better than that in any other. At the time the celeiy was graded the 
top tier contained only about one-third as much sound celery as the 
bottom tier. 
The celery stored at Hornell was held until February 8, 1915, but 
as there had been no other celery in the room for two or three weeks 
preceding that date, it was difficult to maintain the proper tempera- 
