Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — Apples for Shipmant. [ARTICLE]

Apples for Shipmant.

numbers, however, arrived here la a bruised condition from tee effects of careless pecking. A certain amount of for“Newtoo plppins” and others have been exported by private individuals to their friends in England, than when they are packed by the regular tradesmen. There is no reason why this splendid fruit should iVSheSSd^tee tree. A common bat soft kind of tissue paper should envelop each apple before* it is placed in tee cask, aad tala tissue paper should have been soaked la a solution of salicylic acid and dried before it i* used. The beat preparation of salicylic acid for this purpose is the alcoholic solution,made with the strongest spirits, and then dihrtsd wfthrea much water as it will

bear without precipitating the acid, so as to make the solution go as far as possible. Each apple should be enveloped in at least tame or four folds of the salieyated paper, and every possiole precaution should bo taken to prevent bruising when loading into casks or cases. Well-packed apples should not move at all daring tad voyage and the shaking of a railway train should have little effect upon them. Nevertheless, a certain amount ol contusion is inevitable, and to avoid the ulterior results of this, the salieyated paper is indis pensable. As to the cost, it would be a mere trifle when we consider the result gained and the splendid condition of the vnit when it enters the London market. Besides, it is very probable that the salicylic acid paper used for packing the apples in America might be used over again or applied here in England to some familiar antiseptic purpose and an allowance made for it accordingly.