COLD STORAGE OF APPLES

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 6

COLD STORAGE OF APPLES

.The conditions ander .which the prolonged storage of apples may be successfully carried out has been studied, during the past two years by the Lfnited States Department of Agriculture,, and the cold storage of apples has now j«ade this fruit' available practically the whole year round. Several hundred different varieties were stored in' order to make the test. It appars that there is noy difficulty whatever in storing apples in the autumn and keeping . them until late in the following spring. All that is apparently necessary is :;t^ keep an equable temperature jusfc about freezing point is the most satisfactory.;