Reference
  • TR MAFF PH6/73
Date
  • 1951
Description
  • 'Apples can be marketed in good condition several months after being picked if stored at low temperatures in gas chambers. This film illustrates the theory and practical methods of refrigerated gas storage and the harmful effects of gas storage at incorrect temperatures' Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Film Catalogue 1957, p127 Film shows apple orchard with pickers, and orchard in winter. Apples shown stored in a straw clamp in the open air, apples also shown stored in barns below ground level. Ditton Laboratory shown experimenting on apple storage. Diagram of apple breathing. Gas stores shown. The correct handling of apples shown: careful picking of apples, packing station, grading machinery, removal of rotten fruit and wrapping in oiled paper, unsound apples shown. Sponsor and distributor Department of Scientific and Industrial Research