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Show Tests Show Grapes Can' Be Stored Successfully In experiments designed to solvi some of the storage problems connect ed with the marketing of grapes. In vestigators In the experiment statloi of the college fit agriculture. l.'nlver lily of Illinois, found that well rfp rued fruit, free from Insect and ills ease Injury, carefully picked Hni l acked In storage at a temperature o' approximately '"i to 40 degrees Fah ' nlielt will keep In marketable conili iMon for several months. The ex ; cilments were prompted by thi feeling that the price of grapes could fe stabilized if some of the crop could he held In slorage long enough to re l!i '.e the glut on the market when tin i;.-n crop comes on pi general. It was found that red 'li'-Mes keep heller than white oi P'aek ones. Brighton kept l.'.'t flays end Pelaware 111. Other good keep I "7 varieties were P.arry, Diamond I lei Ill-i t, (,'aco, Agawiim, and Ver I- ' U"S |