Old Wives Tale? ; Apples Exposed to Sunlight Torn : Redder Than Untreated Fruit Some fanners grow red apples by selecting specific varieties. Other farmers live in areas where the skins seem to grow brighter. Still other growers ex pose apples to sunlight for sev eral days after harvest. Th fast method sometimes considered an old wives’ tale turned USbA’s scientists into detectives to seek the truth of the matter. H. W. Siegleman, Agricultural Marketing Service hortculturast, and S. B. Hendricks, ARS chemist, started experiment ing with the relationship- of light to color of apples a year ago. They found the practice of spreading apples on the ground in orchards for a few days is backed by more than .imagination if fruits are of a variety capable of turning red. They proved that light does MUSSER Leghorn Chicks For Large White Eggs DONEGAL WHITE CROSS For Broiler Chicks "Dirsa from the Breeder” Phone Mt. Joy 3-4911 JMOUNT JOY. PA. 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This contains anthocyamns; which are responsible for the color in red cabbage and turnip seedlings as well as apples. By conducting round-the-clock ex periments (first with seedlings, then apples) under different col ors of the-spectrum, the scientists patched anthqcyanins develop. Tests were made with early harvested fruits with green skins —Jonathan, Rome Beauty, and Arkansas varieties held in stor age at 32 degrees F. Different apples were placed under flourescent light for about 40 hours, then under 12 hours of light from various regions of the spectrum ranging from red to blue-violet. This determined the effect of different wave lengths oi light on anthocyaman forma tion. Then the apples were placed in a dark room for 24 hours to allow the red color to develop without interference of other rays. The researchers learned that each variety of apple turned red fatest when exposed to the red light of the spectrum. Then, aft er doing more detective work, they discovered that the pigment absorbing the light appeared to .he related to Vitamin B-12—as sociated with copper. The com bination forms copper flavo-pro tein. This is probably similar to a green enzyme that appears in animal liver and takes part in Benj. B. Landis-Paradise Rl, Strasburg OY 7-4419 JOHNF.GERLACH ATTENTION! ALL FARMERS JOHN F. GERLACH has been appointed an authorized because it produces more, influences earlier emergence, better quality, higher yield and shortens the grow ing season. FERTILENE can be used on any kind of crop requiring fertilizer. FBRTILENE is an ideal starter and booster. • FERTILENE reduces mortality of young plants—helps them resist blight. blown Reduces wilting and resetting loss. FERTILENE can be mixed and applied with 2-4-D. con- NATIONAL MEAT PROMOTION (Continued from page 12) ing station breaks and between programs. Through its Plentiful Foods Program, the United States Department of Agriculture coop erates closely with the National Meat Projnotion Committee by dis seminating information to con sumers on meats that are in plen tiful supply. The National Meat Promotion Committee was established in the summer of 1955 to facilitate the cooperative planning of promo tion activities for beef, pork, lamb and poultry interests. The com mittee’s work has helped avoid overlapping of campaign dates and to set up preparations in ad vance of periods when any par ticular meat might be in difficulty and in need of special promotion efforts. In the several campaignswhich have been carried out since the Committee was organized, it has been found that promotion for any one meat also increase the volume of sales of other meats. It was pointed out at the recent meeting that the great variety of fered by m’eat products ‘tends to cut down on competitive pricing. Moreover, the high income of the control of the animal’s meta bolism of fats. Scientists believe that this cop per flavo-protein within the pig ment of the red apples is likely to b? coupled with the-enzymes that burn sugar with oxygen in (respiration. Experiment points the way to new questions now under study on the relationship of color and respiration. So science npw has a new basis for searching for ways to improve the quality of apples after har vest. fff fftttt** tHftftttft Lancaster* Farming, Friday, April 12, 1957 consumers have encouraged peo ple to take greater advantage of the variety of meats found in re tail markets today. The scientific ally-proven fact thatldl meats are nutritionally desirable has also encouraged greater emphasis on variety in meat purchases by ih« consumer. YOU CAN STOP WORRYING ABOUT MARKET PRICES IF YOU HAVE LOTS OF BIG EGGS! Mil Usually, “targe" egg* are worth $3.00 to $6.00 more per case than "Mediums". 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