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Show RIPE FRUIT CHILLED BEFORE CAR LOADING SAN J08E, Calif. July 20. The, first carload of tree ripened apricots ever shipped to the east was scheduled to reach New York today In the shipment ship-ment are two boxes of thebest fruit available in Santa Clara county, one for President Harding and the other for Secretary of Commerce, Hoover. The Growers' Pre-cooling and Dif.1 tributlng association of Mountain View, a co-operative association, shipped ship-ped the fruit after treating it to what Is declared to be an altogether new refrigerating process, which permits per-mits ripo fruit being so reduced lg temperature that it will withstand transcontinental shipment. The experiment is being followed with interest by representatives of tho United States department of aer'cul-ture. |