Novel Method of Handling California Lemons.—
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway has devised a plan for handling California lemons in Chicago during the summer season of heavy demand and good prices. Lemons will be shipped during the winter, as they ripen, to the warehouses of cold storage companies in Chicago, and there held until the most advantageous time arrives for selling. The fruit will be picked in different localities and under varying conditions. Experiments will be made to determine what districts and what pickings are the best. Great things are expected of this novel co-operative scheme, whereby the growers, the railway company, and the storage firms will participate equally in profits or losses. In making these shipments the Santa Fe will use its new refrigerator car, which is equipped with the siphon system, whereby all odors given off by the fruit are condensed and promptly removed, pure, dry air being substituted. The refrigeration charge has also been reduced very materially.