Show Low OW Temperature Right for Fruit Important Factor in Best Storage of Many Different Different Different Differ Differ- ent Products Prepared by the tho United States Stated Department cl c Agriculture Agricultural most Important Important a plu plays s 's a n tant part In the storage of ninny many fruits that are shipped to market from distant distant dis dis- tant areas of ot production Most fruits keep well veil only within a n rather limited range range of h temperature With meats an and dairy alry products the Important thing Is to keep them cold enough but many fruits are fire Injured seriously by bya a temperature only n a few degrees lower lower low er than thun the mo most t favorable temperature tempera tempera- ture for storage Life Proc Processes The life processes of fruits and vegetables says Dr Lon A. A Hawkins of the United States Department of ot Agriculture In explaining this tills fact are lare chemical or ph physical In nature and are nrc governed by hy chemical and physical laws Accor According ing to tonn Van nn lofts loft's I Ila lathe law la the rate of a n chemical ren reaction tion Is doubled or trebled for each 18 degrees F F. F rise In temperature The rate at nt which the life processes of fruits and vegetables proceed In storage Increases increases In in- creases as temperature rises Experience With Pears Doctor Hawkins Illustrates the point by giving experience with Bartlett pears As a rule he says this fruit Ivill keep leep twice as long at 31 degreen degrees de grees green as at nt 30 36 degrees twice as ns long longI at iii I degrees as us at 43 degrees and twice as ns long at this temperature temperature temper temper- as ns at 53 degrees In other wor words word It will keep about eight tithes times as ns long at nt 31 degrees rees as at nt 53 degrees I At GH fJ de degrees rees however the fruit keeps about as ns long as at 53 degrees |