Show SUGGESTIONS FOR rais COU rOLD e STORAGE OF APPLES C r T t 1 etore following I is tak taken n from a paper I a meeting ot of the i h 1 Apple Appl Shipp r lallon In r f f 1 to 8 si I by era G t Department ot of i f t COld storage T r of I t of Agriculture during r C e a ie e Ay I than year rl before fore bave tact out thAt the the to tIl need to 10 give glo I Iho the condition In n crop is IA of er the Ih grown II hi he avoids some serious trouble that now con oon fronts front him helm In the storage of or the fruit For Far example It lies Imi been ben found that fruit that ha hu hies been lIeen forced In growth deteriorates earlier In the c to rage than the same ame variety f grown more moll slowly The York Vork ork Imperial lieu Hen Davis ai Pound found Sweet and thode Inland island Green been GreenIng beenIng Ing apples from rapidly growing young trees tree or nr overgrown fruit produced In III soils oll or In tn a light crop croil hav hi broken down II wn in lu the warehouse week weeks or nr even ev n month earlier than the tile medium slued deed more slowly lowly grown fruit of the th same lAme varieties The rime flesh nh of ot the 1111 apple grown under these Ibel con cou shows a gradual discoloration finally II lIa 11 assuming a II brownish color lolol which I la II generally attributed to the of the fruit In the th warehouse WI rello II The practical nay to avoid I old 10 losses o ea of or till this nature I is II to know more about the conditions condition In the ot orchard chard to watch tho those e lots loin that may U be expected to break down dOII relatively early parly t tto it itsell sell them before they th reach time tho of deterioration Our Investigations ot nt th time past PRill year have emphasised more strongly than before re the fact that th tin apple IPpie scald rahl is III Induced largely by b faulty tault methods method In the handling of nf limos tho vat vai I lades letle that tho I are susceptible to 10 the thu th trouble 11 rAt the premature picking of the th fruit hult increases It its liability tn tu a scald All as the tipple lee that have devel developed developed vel old a R high rotor color seldom show allow aho the trouble t the delays In storing storms the fruit after It I Is the th scald to II develop earlier artier In the Ih season and with greater severity If It tn fruit cooled after picking These two t WI factors factor are more mMe Important taut tant In III causing the scald of ot applet apples than nil all other others put together and the trouble can call he be reduced to a minimum only when ramose IhMe like York Imperial Grimes Grime Golden In III Inland land threshing Greening and Wagner Wainer that scalar mot most severely ly are allowed to reach each A n 1 high color before picking and when they are ne stored quickly Afterward in mu ina a u temperature not above 81 St to U 12 and then told sold relatively NIR early In the sea eta season son IOn sonI IOnI I am confident that the th cue tut la is not nol overdrawn In li stating that at least of ot the commercial troubles trouble In the time cold storage torae of apples apple appleI I is II the result of ot handling limn fruit roughly In lu nicking packing and Inti ship shipping shipping ping coupled with a delay In the fruit after alter It I II s picked The apple ripens ripen quickly AH as loon toon as lit It I Is II sev severed erect ered from flom the Ib tree tret and the grow raptly I hour that the fruit He lies In pile piles or packages package In the tho or oro orchard orchard chard In buildings building build In In box bux boxcar boxcars cars car In transit or at al the tb terminal of the road In warm weather It tt is I eon con ruining a n part of It its life that other otherwise wise wine would be paused pallid In the warehouse ware warehouse I i house hOUle I The common ro soft I rot that le I be most mOlt common rom mOil disease In storage st applet apple and which rinses you to repack k much of rat your our fruit In the spring attacks attack the time i fruit not on the tw tees hut huh through nil ti 1 bruise on the time apple appl after aUer It II Is in picked Unlike the bitter rot or apple seal cah this disease dl continues continue to grow woly i In the temperature of ot the ur i room hut lint It Il spreads pread with great rn rap I during ft a 1 delay In warm weather So Bo when you find a B loss of ot ten or twenty or thirty pel per r cent nt from soft rot the evidence I Is II almost almat always conclusive that the truly fruit ha has h been handled roughly rou bh and that It tram Ill not no stored quickly after atter picking unless I Ithe the warehouse lies hae II been grossly mule and ami the time temperature ha has hIli re tt remained for a considerable time about the degree of ot cold which the Die wart a houseman contracts contract to maintain maintainS S Sa |