CELERY STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. 
EXPERIMENTS IN 1912-13. 
The celery used in the experiment in 1912-13 was grown at Ark- 
port and stored at Elmira, N. Y. The experimental lots were har- 
vested in the afternoon of October 18, 1912, and shipped the same 
day by express to Elmira. The following morning they were un- 
loaded and stacked in 
the storage house. 
The crates were piled 
five high, with a 2- 
inch scantling be- 
tween the crates and 
a 2 to 3 inch air space 
between the stacks. 
The celery was ex- 
amined three times 
while in storage, and 
at the third examina- 
t i o n , February 13, 
1913, it was graded. 
The results of this 
grading are shown in 
Table I. 
The sound celery 
was free from disease, 
or so slightly diseased 
that very few of the leaves had to be stripped off in preparing it 
for market. The slightly decayed celery consisted of stalks which 
were diseased and required so much stripping that the bunches were 
small and contained little foliage. The ordinary ratio of the price 
of these two grades would be about 5 to 3. In other words, if a 
bunch of 12 stalks of sound celery sells for 50 cents, a bunch of 
slightly decayed celery would sell for about 30 cents. 
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Fig. 2. — Partition crate filled with celery. Note the air 
space, which extends to the bottom of the crate. 
Table I. — 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 Elmira, N. Y., when inspected on February 13, 1913. 
Type of crate. 
Total 
number 
of 
stalks. 
Sound. 
Slightly decayed. 
Number. 
Per cent. 
Number. 
Per cent. 
Standard 
Partition 
10-inch 
430 
416 
200 
305 
395 
194 
70.9 
94.95 
97.0 
125 
21 
6 
28.1 
5.05 
3.0 
Table I shows that the partition crate contained 24 per cent and 
the 10-inch crate about 26 per cent more sound celerv than the 
