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Before apples reach pie pans teachers' desks, lunch pails and cider jugs they have been handled by an impressive array of equipment. No one has yet perfected an automatic picker, but machines wash and polish, wrap and pack, peel and core, slice and squeeze, cook and can, thousands of pounds of apples. Choice apples are put to sleep, in effect, to preserve freshness for months beyond the harvest season. Since apples, like human beings need oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, the rate of respiration can be slowed down by reducing oxygen and temperature in airtight stor age rooms. Such hibernating
the spot where Jesus was born. Here pilgrims from all over the world gather on Christmas Eve. First there is c a r o 1singing in the square facing the church. Then all enter for the solemn midnight mass. After the service, an image of Christ is carried in a pro-! cession down into the grotto, and is placed in a manger where it lies until January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. After this ceremony, some may wandtr into the fields outside tJie town, where perhaps shepherds long ago heard the news of the birth of Christ, All this takes place,of course on the eve of December 25. But that’s not the end of Christmas in Bethlehem. For the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the holiday on January 6, and the Armenians observe it on January 18, which is January 6 according to the old style, or Julian calendar.
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