. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 1915 BETTER FRUIT Page /p Some Results of the Apple Storage Investigation by U. S. E. L. Markcll, United States Department of Agrieulture, Washington, D. C. THE problem of fruit storage would be much simplified if the theory held by one of the darkeys work- ing in the government precooling plant in Florida were correct. "What's all dis here machinery, Sam?" one of his friends asked him. "Why, dat's de guv- er'ment embalming plant," was the an- swer. "You puts de oranges in dcre an' dey keeps ; Unfortunately storage of every t
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 1915 BETTER FRUIT Page /p Some Results of the Apple Storage Investigation by U. S. E. L. Markcll, United States Department of Agrieulture, Washington, D. C. THE problem of fruit storage would be much simplified if the theory held by one of the darkeys work- ing in the government precooling plant in Florida were correct. "What's all dis here machinery, Sam?" one of his friends asked him. "Why, dat's de guv- er'ment embalming plant," was the an- swer. "You puts de oranges in dcre an' dey keeps ; Unfortunately storage of every type has its limitations, and so far no fruit has been discovered which keeps forever. Exceptional in- stances do occur—one is continually meeting the grower who overlooked one box of apples in the storage house and found four-fifths of them in good condition the following August, and the other grower, some of whose Jonathans kept perfectly in his cellar until June. Such exceptions are interesting, but they merely serve to emphasize the fact that what the practical grower is con- cerned with is the rule of the average, the normal result in the greatest possi- ble number of cases of fruit storage on a commercial scale. It is to determine the normal average results of storage from the behavior of apples of the chief commercial varieties grown in the Northwest, picked and stored under difl'erent conditions, that the Depart- ment of Agriculture has been conduct- ing these experiments for the past four years. The apple is an organism, and like every living thing has a definite length of life. Favorable or unfavorable con- Lime Sulphur Lead Arsenate Bordeaux Paste Spra-Sulphur The most serious pests and diseases doing the most dam- age to trees in the Northwest are San Jose Scale and Anthrac- nose. The ones doing the most damage to crops and causing a loss of millions annually to fruit growers, are Codling Moth and Scab. Growers Must Have Sprays that are Efficient We make the above
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