The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-03-28
HOW FROST PR SERVES APPLES.

HOW FROST Pr RESERVES APPLES.
"If your garnet or loft is only cold
IN ugh, there isn't amy reason IN the
world why you shouldn't treat yonr
friends with plump, full-aavored Rhode
Is aud greetings. Baldwns,or amy other
choice apples, just AS we'll next June as
you did last Christmas" said ~ Wash
ugton street commission merchant. OH
ave last years Baluwins, and | don't
know but last years GREETINGS, as sound
as KNIT, in my house next summer, in
the same dish with this years harvest
,pples; yet nine ont often people would
nave thought these same apples were
uined two months ago. and would have
rcated them accordingly. Wh!l Sim
,ly because they were frozen"
"Dursn't the freezing OF apples spoil
them, then7' asked the reporter.
The general opinion is, replied the
merchant, that after an apple freazfs
Us value is gone; but the fact is that
last the contrary is the truth. Let a
arrel Of apples freeze in the fall, and
K rp them irozen,or, rather, 10 not dlc-
urb them, and III the spring they will
be in he very condition 'h'yw,r when
taken from the tree. B,ldwins, and in
fact all fav"rlte eating apples, do not
nave their full favor nor mellowncss
when first packed in the fail. They RI
pen i'll ths barrel, and are at their best
n January. After that they begin TO-
lecay, AID when March comes they are
few and far between, these that are loft
being the result Of especial good care
md at ention.
If they are frozen in the fall, how
ever, the rlpeling process is checked
The vitality of the apple is simply sus,
pended, and it only needs proper treat.
nent to restore it to its natural action,
The trouble has always been that when
barrel ofaprles was found to he frozen
It was rolled off At once to warm
place and subjected to a rapid thaw irs
some peopls take the apples out Of tn,
barrel and plunge them in cold waite
to draw the frost out The result is
tlabby, hAvorless fruit, really not wortl
the room it occupies, and subject t,
speedy decay-all because of popula
ignorance. A frozen apple is one If til,
nost sensitive things in the world
Touch your finger upon it, and when tn
frost is thawed from the apple the >po
touched will he Il mark of decay whcI
spreads rapidly over the fruit.
wherefore. IT you ever find that Won
! barrel of BaIduins is frozen Eeut i
gently. If the apples are thorough,
frozen the barrel will not be full b,
nearly peck, so much has the fruit con
tsacted with the frost. 1t wonld be i'm
possible, now, to move the barrel wit,
'ut running every apple III it. So, if i
stands where it viii not he subjected t.
sudden warmth, and thus thawed on
! apldly, let it stand. Cover the apple
I Up 50 they will be kept d,rt. Then q
way and let them alone uatii sIrin
; comes and draws the frost ont OF ever,
: ming. Then uncover your apples.
may stirtle you, but y"u will iind tn
{ barrel full to the hea viii t t plu'n
: fellows that were rolled into Your hous
in the fill, aud which we're sorry look
lng lot OF wrlnkled, shrunk-up fruit tn
last time you saw The n.
Il 'Iftney were assert d apples whcl
. acked You need not pick hem over
81 or they will be just as sound and hare