The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-14
APPLES RIPE And JUICY
The Bitter Root Product Is the Proper
Stuff.
FRUIT IN COLD STORAGE
There Is a Growing Belief That the
New System of Preservation
Is Destined to Be Of
Great Value.

MIssoULA, Jan. 13.-Those readers of
tho STANDARD who attended the fruit
show at Stevensville last fall will remem-
Der one exhibit of apples that had been
kept in a cool cellar for a year, having
been grown in 1898. They were somewhat
shrunken but still retained their flavor
and were presentable in appearance.
The experiments upon the preservation
of fruit by low temperature have been
successful, according to recent reports,
and the cold storage system bids fair in a
short time to play an important part in
the preservation of fruit, especially when
il is shipped any considerable distance.
In a recent article upon this subject,
Professor Craig, director of the Ottawa
experiment station, makes the following
observation:
"Before long you will see revolution
in the apple trade. Winter apples will
not be a necessity. Cold storage will
solve tho difficulty. Probably before two
years are over you will see in every fruit
growing district cold storage houses on
the cooperative plan, based on the cold
storage building at the worlds fair. Fall
apples put into cold storage buildings
where the temperature is at 81 degrees
may be kept an indefinite length of time.
Thus winter apples will not be necessary.
When was ut the worlds fair in the mid
die of the hot season | saw in good condi-
ton Duchess of Oldenburg apples which
had been ripened early the previous sum-
mer and kept in cold storage. While in
Montreal recently | noticed in the cold
storage building beautiful California
pears"
In tho current number of tho Irrigation
Age there is paragraph which is OF de-
cided interest TO the fruit growers of
Western Montana. For several months
there has been considerable local discus
sion of plan for the construction of "a
plant for the evaporation of apples. Ono
specimen of evaporated fruit was shown
at the Stevensville exhibition and dealers
who are familiar with such products pro-
nounced the fruit shown to be of superior
quality. IL such plant was constructed
and put into active operation, il would
provide means for the disposal of a GER
tain portion of unmarketable fruit which
is now practically of no value. Accord
ing TO tho paragraph mentioned above,
tho fruit raised by irrigation is better for
evaporation than any other. This being
tho case, it would seem that tho industry
which has been suggested would DO of
great benefit to this section. Tho para
graph is as follows:
1--WE learn from n coast paper that n
California fruit company has been in
vestigating tho effect of irrigation on fruit
as regards its shrinkage when il is dried.
They 70 und rather unexpectedly that tho
irrigated fruit had less shrinkage, and
was therefore worth more in its green
state than fruit grown without irrigation.
The conclusion is that the greater amount
OF water in tho soil enable tho roots to
take up more mineral matter. 1t also
made moro vigorous growth of leaves,
and through these tho air contributed n
greater proportion of saccharinc pulp
than was possible with the poorer foliage
ON the trees that had a deficient supply of
water