. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. i9iS BETTER FRUIT Page ip U. S. Bureau of Markets, Etc. Continued from page 7. structions covering many of the crops, like its bulletin on the subject of load- ing Western cantaloupes. Many others are prepared and offered for free dis- tribution. The storage of crops, when not in transit, is another vital feature of the fruit industry. Aside from cold-storage plants, which are necessary and always expensive, this Bureau has worked to develop proper principles of common storage, where no refrigeration is em- ployed, and has developed them so far that, in the past
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. i9iS BETTER FRUIT Page ip U. S. Bureau of Markets, Etc. Continued from page 7. structions covering many of the crops, like its bulletin on the subject of load- ing Western cantaloupes. Many others are prepared and offered for free dis- tribution. The storage of crops, when not in transit, is another vital feature of the fruit industry. Aside from cold-storage plants, which are necessary and always expensive, this Bureau has worked to develop proper principles of common storage, where no refrigeration is em- ployed, and has developed them so far that, in the past year, between 40 and 50 such storehouses have been built in the Northwest, adapting the standard plans to local conditions. In some of them, the past season's crop of apples stored up to March was in just as good condition as in cold storage. They have been held later, but it is not rec- ommended. Keeping apples success- fully in common storage is not entirely a question of handling in storage. They must be grown properly, cultivated, watered, sprayed, harvested at the proper time, packed properly, the storage must be built properly, and, lastly, it must be handled properly. The ncwset phase of the Bureau's activities to affect the horticulturists is the enforcement of the Federal Food Inspection Law, which was passed by Congress last August. Since foods were first raised in the country and sold in the city, it has been one long wrangle about the condition in which they ar- rived in market. The fact of the loss to growers, shippers and consumers has been long recognized, but the responsi- bility was not traced, so it resulted in a constantly augmented ill feeling between the shippers and the receivers who, in fact, were merely quarreling over the profits while the public was paying the bill. In any market in the country, retrimmed cabbage and celery, and repacked tomatoes, and various other products are quoted, which means that a considerable part of what was shipped by the gro
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