November 1, 19 9 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
23 
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Wirrabara Mill. 
Load of Raisin Cases made from Remarkable Pine, starting for Renmark from 
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Understood much misunderstanding will 
be avoided and greater satisfaction and 
Profit will result to 
Cerned, 
everybody con- 
A most important provision and one 
Which should be carried out to the letter 
"8 this, that fruit should invariably be 
Packed in open ventilated cases of uniform 
*lZe, Loss of space and great difficulty in 
ndling and ventilating packages have 
Pe ®xperienced in the handling of cases 
Uneven size and shape, 
wee is a good deal of misapprehension 
© the function of cool storage in the 
Preservation of fruits. ‘Thia condition 
a to frequent misunderstandings which 
ae be avoided and the cordition of 
aie *torage improved if there were a 
ae definition of the influence of fruit 
Si ER of cultural conditions, of the 
Nercial methods of handling and of 
Sioneee of storage. The fruit is part 
Bie organism in which certain 
SSes go forward more slowly in low 
temperatures, but do not cease even in 
the lowest temperatures in which the fruit 
It may decay 
prematurely through rots caused by fungi 
which lodge on the fruit before it is 
packed and sometimes afterwards. The 
cool storage house is designed to arrest 
the ripening processes in a temperature 
that will not injure the fruit in other 
respects, and thereby prolong its life’s 
history. It is designed also to retard the 
development of the diseases with which 
the fiuit is affected, but it cannot prevent 
the slow growth of some of them. It 
follows that the behaviour of different 
apples or pears in storage is largely de- 
pendent on their condition when they 
enter the stores. 
dissimilar condition of ripeness, or have 
been grown or handled differently, or 
may be safely stored. 
If they are in a 
vary in other respects, these differences 
may be expected to appear as the fruit 
ripens slowly in the low temperatures. If 
the fruit when stored is already over-ripe 
the low temperatures cannot prevent its. 
deterioration sooner than would be the 
case with fruit of the same variety that. 
If the. 
fruit has been bruised, or is covered with 
rot spores, the low temperature may 
retard but cannot prevent its premature 
decay. Ifthere are inherent differences. 
in the fruit due to the character of the 
soil, the altitude, and to incidental 
features of orchard management, or 
was in a leas mature condition. 
variations due to methods of picking, 
packing, and handling, the low tempera- 
ture must not be expected to obliterate. 
them, but rather to retard while not 
preventing their normal development, 
Fruits for cool storage and export should 
be grown on well drained ground. 
Vauietizs, Keepinc Quawitizs, 
TEMPERATURES. 
AND- 
— Apples. — 
Apples do not improve in grade in cool 
storage. In handling crop too much care. 
