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age has not cost you anything, in fact you have made money by 

 putting them in by saving shrinkage even if there is no rise in the 

 price of fruit from fall to spring. 



Q. How long did those apples that you speak of remain in 

 cold storage? 



Mr. CivARK : There were about 300 barrels of Hubbardstons 

 and Kings and those of course were sold early in the season. 

 The rest were all Baldwins and they didn't sell them till way into 

 March, begin on them, and way into May before they closed 

 them up. 



Q. Did you give us to understand that there was no shrink- 

 age on those apples ? 



Mr. Clark : Not a single apple did they discount on. 



Q. But the apples shrunk ? 



Mr. Clark : Not enough to have to fill the barrels. 



Q. What we want to know is if cold storage in Boston will 

 hold an apple from picking time up to March without the gen- 

 eral shrinkage that it would get in common storage? 



Mr. Clark : It will hold it with a great deal less. Two years 

 befol^e I had 600 barrels in there, they didn't look them over at 

 all, they just took one barrel and when they found a barrel that 

 was a little slack they put in an apple here and there to fill it, 

 and they took one barrel to fill up the 600 barrels so that they 

 were fit for sale. This last year I got them in there sooner and 

 they didn't shrink me a single apple on 1,600 barrels. 



Q. Can you tell me where these apples were sold? 



Mr. Clark : Right in the markets of Boston. They were not 

 shipped. 



Q. Speaking about the difference between cold storage and 

 common storage, did you put your house in the class of common 

 storage, or the common storage of farmers ? 



Mr. Clark : Common storage as farmers. 



Mr. Gilbert : In connection with this matter of home stor- 

 age of fruit, I will ask Mr. F. H. Morse of Waterford to 

 describe to you a fruit house he has constructed on his own 

 premises. 



Mr. Morse : Perhaps I will spend just a minute in telling 

 you why I needed it. In the spring of '86 I bought an old farm, 

 a mile and a half or two miles from my place, well covered with 

 natural fruit apple trees, very thrifty, and all they needed was 



