50 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Cold storage does not add anything to the appearance or quaHty 

 of the fruit. An apple never looks any better than when it is 

 first picked from the tree if properly ripened. Cold storage 

 simply retards the ripening of the fruit and checks the rapid 

 spread of whatever disease it may be affected wnth. Neither 

 decay or spread of disease will be entirely checked unless the 

 fruit is kept continually frozen, but they will go on more slowly 

 as the temperature approaches the freezing point. One cannot 

 put poor and imperfect fruit in storage and take out good. 



Apples as a rule, to give the best results should not be picked 

 before they are fairly well colored. The Baldwin for example, 

 if poorly colored is more apt to scald than when well colored. 

 Dift'erent varieties of apples vary in their ability to withstand 

 scald while in cold storage. An apple should not be left on the 

 tree until it is over ripe before being picked or its life will be 

 short even in cold storage. Apples should not be put in heaps 

 upon the ground or kept in a warm place, for they ripen much 

 faster after being picked than before. An apple that begins to 

 ripen before it is put in cold storage will continue to ripen after 

 it is stored but much slower, while an apple that is picked at the 

 proper time and placed at once in cold storage will keep almost 

 indefinitely. 



The house that I have was built in 1898. The building is 

 42 feet by 32 feet with 7 feet posts with 2 x 4-inch studding 

 between. On the outside the house is boarded with Novelty 

 siding ; building paper is put between the studding and then 

 boarded with matched pine ; this is papered, then 2 x 4-inch stud- 

 ding is put up and then boarded ; the 4-inch space made by this 

 boarding is filled with charcoal dust ; paper is put on this board- 

 ing and 2 /c 4-inch studding again put up and again it is boarded. 

 This makes a wall about 16 inches thick with three four-inch 

 spaces, the middle one filled with charcoal dust, the outside and 

 inside spaces dead air spaces. The foundation is of stone with 

 six courses of brick for underpinning. 



In the roof above the main part of the building is an ice box 

 6x9 feet running the whole length of the house. The floor 

 beneath the ice is covered with galvanized iron and inclined one 

 inch to carry the water from the melting ice into a gutter from 

 which it is carried by waste pipes to the ground into a tile drain. 

 Extending the whole length of the ice box on each side is an 



