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["Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lpittman@murraystate.edu>]

Jim, 
Fellow who used to run a small commercial orchard here had a big walk-in 
cooler - but had to keep wet towels over baskets of apples in long-term 
storage to keep them from shriveling. 
I remember visiting with him at the beginning of a fall apple season, and 
having him tell me he had some Arkansas Blacks from the previous year that 
were better than they'd even been, but couldn't sell them because his wife 
had gotten tired of keeping the towels wet over the summer, and they were 
shriveled, and no one would buy them - even though the quality was vastly 
superior to what they'd been when they came off the trees almost a year 
earlier. 

Lucky

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Fruth
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:07 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [nafex] Keeping apples

Is there a home kitchen method for waxing apples so they don’t lose moisture 
during storage?  I love Haralsons but they look like prunes at this time of 
the year.

Jim Fruth
Pequot Lakes, MN
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