. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 130 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING fine as a needle point will give ample opportunity for infection from these various decay organisms. As the temperature of the fruit in storage is lowered the activities of the fungi are lessened, until at a point about 31 or 32 degrees growth is almost stopped. It is not possible to kill or eradicate any of the rots, so far as known, by lowering the temperature beyond 31 de- grees. As soon as the fruit is removed from storage. Fig. 1
. Modern fruit marketing : a complete treatise covering harvesting, packing, storing, transporting and selling of fruit . Fruit trade. 130 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING fine as a needle point will give ample opportunity for infection from these various decay organisms. As the temperature of the fruit in storage is lowered the activities of the fungi are lessened, until at a point about 31 or 32 degrees growth is almost stopped. It is not possible to kill or eradicate any of the rots, so far as known, by lowering the temperature beyond 31 de- grees. As soon as the fruit is removed from storage. Fig. 101.—PINK ROT FOLLOWING APPLE SCAB the temperature rises and the decay fungi immediately become active and work much more rapidly than they would previous to storage. Various precautions need to be taken to prevent the spread of decay in storage houses: (1) The temperature should not be changed more than one degree in 24 hours. (2) The ventilation should be sufficient to re- move any of the spores that might be scattered through the air. (3) Where the fruit is wrapped, the packages sealed up and not rehandled until removed from the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brown, Bliss S. , 1880-. New York : Orange Judd Company
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