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Show All Fruit in Storage Should Be Kept Cool It might be advised that all fruit in storage be kept cool. However, apples comprise- most of the fruit stored an corn-belt farms, so any suggestions relative to the handling of the stored fruit naturally apply most directly to apples, says Successful Farming. Those who have stored apples will do well to sort litem over occasionally particularly if they are iu common storage. Where high-quality closely graded apples have been put into cold storage, this sorting is usually never necessary unless it does happen to be very hire in the season, beyond the usual date to which the variety can be kept. In common storage the occasional warm spells through winter causae development de-velopment of rots, and it is the danger from this standpoint that requires th-J occasional sorting over of apples that are in a cave or cellar or in any storage, stor-age, unless it is cold storage. |