Blue Mold Decay Of Delicious Apples In Relation To Handling Practices Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Blue Mold Decay of Delicious Apples in Relation to Handling Practices N o justification was found for the commonly held belief that wash ing and packing apples after they have been held for several weeks at 32° F. Make them more subject to washing injury and decay thanimmediate washing. Cold storage for 2, 6, or 10 weeks prior to wash ing resulted in increased resistance to washing injury, the increases in general being proportional to the length of the storage period. When fruit was held for 6 weeks prior to washing, its resistance to infection was consistently increased. Fruit packed while wet developed no more decay than that dried before packing. Passing apples through a heavily contaminated washing solution followed by a relatively clean rinse caused only a slight increase in the amount of decay, whereas subjecting the unwashed fruit to a special rinse containing a high population of blue mold spores resulted in a greatly increased number of infections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.