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open space fifteen inches wide connecting the ice box with the 

 main part of the house for the circulation of air between the two. 

 In each end of the ice box are double doors for putting in the 

 ice which is stored in an ice house near the rear end of the cold 

 storage. The ice is drawn up to the ice box by a horse and pul- 

 leys. About 200 twenty-inch cakes are used to fill the ice 

 box, which must be filled three or four times to carry the apples 

 through the season. 



In the main building at each end are double doors, between 

 these are sliding doors with iron rods three inches apart to keep 

 out intruders when the house is left open at night to cool it 

 down. The floor is of brick with the exception of a concrete 

 driveway nine feet wide and a walk four feet wide to the work- 

 room which is 22 x 14 feet, connected with main store-room by 

 doors. 



When ice alone is used to cool the house the temperature will 

 not be lowered much below 40° F. When frosty nights occur the 

 house can be opened and the temperature inside lowered to 32° 

 F., at which the house should be held if possible. 



In running: mv house cold weather has never troubled me. 

 As long as it is cold outside there is little variation as the heat 

 of the earth rising through the brick floor prevents the house 

 getting too cold, while the ice in the ice box regulates the tem- 

 perature during the warm days that come in winter. Ice should 

 be kept in the ice box as long as the fruit is stored in the house. 



Trouble is often experienced from moisture condensing on the 

 fruit and inside of the house. In caring for my house I have 

 experienced little if any trouble to keep the house dry if care is 

 taken not to open the house and admit the outside atmosphere 

 when it is w^armer than the temperature inside, for when a warm 

 atmosphere strikes a cold surface its moisture is condensed and 

 deposited on that surface ; but this never happens when a cold 

 atmosphere comes in contact with a warmer surface and it has 

 been my practice to open my house cold nights during the fall 

 to help lower the temperature inside and save the ice. 



When I left yesterday my house stood about 35, and I can keep 

 it there right along probably until we have cold weather when I 

 can get it down as I want it to about 32 degrees, and I actually 

 think that I can take apples right from my orchard and put them 



