A good storehouse is a storehouse that is constructed above ground level. The floor was of soil, and wire netting was buried a foot below so as to prevent rats and mice from burrowing in. The earth was them rammed down tight and was watered with a 2 per cent solution of formaldehyde so as to kill any disease spores that might be present.
The whole of the store was built double. That is to say, there are double doors with a 6-inch buffer of air in between them. The thick outside door opens outwards and the inside door slides to the side conveniently. The walls were made of those large concrete blocks with asbestos wool pushed down tightly in the centre cavities.
The commercial fruit grower with his hundreds of acres may find it convenient to erect a large Gas Store as it is called, where in a sealed chamber a controlled content of CO, can be ensured. Such gas stores, though expensive, can be profitable because apples can be kept perfectly until prices have improved in the spring.
The home fruit grower will be able to store his apples and pears quite easily in any storehouse where the temperature keeps round about 40 F., and where air can circulate between the fruits. Because apples and pears have a high water content, and because they `breathe', they can easily lose moisture during storage. It is when this happens they shrivel.
It is always better, if possible, to store apples in a separate place from pears because the latter seem to have a bad effect on the former. It helps definitely, however, if each of the fruits can be wrapped in paper before being put into the boxes, for then there is a greater tendency for the CO2 given off by the fruits to collect in an infinitesimal amount inside the paper wrapped around the specimen and not to be given off in the air.
I would always advise the use of oiled wrapping papers when apples and pears have to be stored in the same room.
The whole of the store was built double. That is to say, there are double doors with a 6-inch buffer of air in between them. The thick outside door opens outwards and the inside door slides to the side conveniently. The walls were made of those large concrete blocks with asbestos wool pushed down tightly in the centre cavities.
The commercial fruit grower with his hundreds of acres may find it convenient to erect a large Gas Store as it is called, where in a sealed chamber a controlled content of CO, can be ensured. Such gas stores, though expensive, can be profitable because apples can be kept perfectly until prices have improved in the spring.
The home fruit grower will be able to store his apples and pears quite easily in any storehouse where the temperature keeps round about 40 F., and where air can circulate between the fruits. Because apples and pears have a high water content, and because they `breathe', they can easily lose moisture during storage. It is when this happens they shrivel.
It is always better, if possible, to store apples in a separate place from pears because the latter seem to have a bad effect on the former. It helps definitely, however, if each of the fruits can be wrapped in paper before being put into the boxes, for then there is a greater tendency for the CO2 given off by the fruits to collect in an infinitesimal amount inside the paper wrapped around the specimen and not to be given off in the air.
I would always advise the use of oiled wrapping papers when apples and pears have to be stored in the same room.
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