. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Ambrose E. Stevens, general manager and vice-president of NCA is shown in this unusual photograph as he delivered his report at the annual meeting at Hanson, last month. Cooling Fruit In Storage (Editor's Note:-In view of experi- ments to keep cranberries fresh longer, the following may be of interest.) Storage operators who handle apples and pears like to "room cool" their fruit. When this meth- od is properly used, they can keep the fruit at a uniform tempera- ture with a minimum of handling: and expense. Fruit that is
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Ambrose E. Stevens, general manager and vice-president of NCA is shown in this unusual photograph as he delivered his report at the annual meeting at Hanson, last month. Cooling Fruit In Storage (Editor's Note:-In view of experi- ments to keep cranberries fresh longer, the following may be of interest.) Storage operators who handle apples and pears like to "room cool" their fruit. When this meth- od is properly used, they can keep the fruit at a uniform tempera- ture with a minimum of handling: and expense. Fruit that is "room cooled" is received, cooled, and stored all in one room. In this way, some of the problems of precooling are eliminated and there is only one handling and stacking operation. But simple as this sounds, "room cooling" can be complicated busi- ness. Many factors influence the effectiveness of cooling. It's often difficult to maintain uniform tem- perature throughout storage, and different handling procedures pro- duce different results. AMS handling and facilities 'ex- perts have been studying the var- ious factors that determine suc- cessful cooling of apples and pears. As a yardstick, they have developed what they call "half- pooling time". This is the time it takes to reduce the temperatm'e of a stored apple or pear halfway *5etw66tt its initial temperature and he storage air temperature. Researchers determined half- cooling timesfv for the more com- mon containers and stacking ar- langements. They were: 6 to 10 hours for unpacked pears in can- nery lugs in individual rows and to hours on pallets; to 14 hours for unpacked apples in apple boxes in individual rows and to hours on pallets; 23 to 36 hours for packed pears in wood- en boxes in individual rows; and 27 to 50 hours for packed apples in wooden boxes in individual rows and 45 to 66 hours on pallets. The refrigeration capacity must be adequate to keep the storage
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