Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — To Keep Grapes Fresh. [ARTICLE]

To Keep Grapes Fresh.

The great thing in keeping grapes is to keep them from the drying up process, but they must not be immersed in water or handled in any way. In cutting grapes to be kept fresh, an Inch or two of stalk Is left on each side of the twig that bears them, and to each end of this stalk is pitted a bulb of rubber or glass containing sterilized water. The whole is then hung up where the grapes will swing free and the water in bulbs is sucked up by the stalks. The water can be renewed as often as is necessary, without touching the grapes, f.e grapes will keep three or four months by this process.