Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, and of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Volume 26, PT. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...carbon dioxid from each were taken. In Table 1 are given the weights of each group of fifteen cherries. In tables 2A and 2B are given the number of hours of each run, the amount of carbon dioxid in milligrams per hour for each 100 grams of cherries, for each period and for the entire period, and the.ratios of the weights of carbon dioxid produced in nitrogen and hydrogen to that produced in air. TABLE 1. Weight Of The Fifteen Cherries In Each Respiration Chamber TABLE 2A. Average Hourly Production Of Carbon Dioxid In Milligrams Per 100 Grams Of Ripe Cherries In Air, Nitrogen, And Hydrogen At 300 C. In Continuous Current Of Respective Gases TABLE 2B. Average Hourly Production Of Carbon Dioxid In Milligrams Per 100 Grams Of Ripe Cherries In Air, Nitrogen, And Hydrogen At 300 C. In Current Of Respective Gases For One Half-hour Twice Daily It will be seen from Table 1 that there was considerable diversity in the weights of the several groups of 15 cherries, notwithstanding the fact that the cherries had been chosen with a view to uniformity. The cherry stones were more nearly uniform in weight than were the whole cherries, consequently the proportion of flesh in lb, weighing 51 grams, was greater than in Ilia, weighing 46.8 grams. The cherries were not all from the same tree. Some were from shaded parts of a tree and some from welllighted parts. Some came from heavily loaded limbs and others from limbs bearing only a few cherries. All such factors cause the water content, the acid content, the sugar content, and presumably the enzymatic content of the fruit to vary; and since all such factors influence the production of carbon dioxid a wide variation is to be expected, no matter how uniformly the fruits may be grouped together after having been picked. The same...