STORAGE OF APPLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 93, 20 April 1932, Page 4

STORAGE OF APPLES.

ENGLISH EXPERIMENTS. "The time is not far distant when English apples will be available the year round. The gulf between seasons lias been very much narrowed, and will probably disappear within the next few years." The above, says Mrs. A. Robertson, of Wellington, writing from London, appeared in the "Daily Telegraph" in August, 1927. "I have just seen the fulfilment of the prophecy at the Ditton Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research," she says. "The champion culinary apple, Bramley's Seedling, so extensively grown in Kent, has been experimented upon, with the result that as Dr. Cyril West and Dr. Franklin Kidd informed me, it can now be placed on the market all the year round. Its condition is kept almost indistinguishable from that of the freshlygathered fruit. "The secret is the maintenance of fresh air at the correct temperature in the store, so that the apple may continue the normal process of converting oxygen into carbon dioxide and passing it off. To apply this method, every kind of apple must be the subject of special study. Experiments are now being made with other vai/ties. "Ordinary old-fashioned means of cold storage remain good enough for keeping up to a point, but the new method known as gas storage keeps the fruit in good condition much longer."