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Apple Storage Survey
In Virginia Reported
The cold storage space for apples in 77 plants in Virginia is enough to hold d.OCO.OOO bushels of fruit, Robert L. Givens. USDA engineer stationed at VPI, reports. Fifty of the plants are refrigerated, the rest are common storages.
Givens' report on a survey conducted co-operatively with the Virginia Experiment Station, shows that the Virginia plants have a total available daily refrigeration capacity equal to that needed for freezing 2,500 tons of ice. This is enough to properly cool 436,000 bushels of apples a day.
The survey, part of the activities under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946, has provided a basis for effective research on marketing problems of all apple growers in the region. It shows that pallet handling is not general in the Virginia plants, the usual methods of storing the fruit being in boxes, bushel baskets, field crates, mesh bags, and bins. Purification of air in the Btorage space is practical in some plants, and experimental work has been started on this aspect of storage. The survey summary emphasizes that quick removal of the initial heat from apples is one of the important factors in their storage life. The- condition of the apples entering storage, apple core tem
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