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waves come and the wind sweeps through for one or two or 

 three nights. Then if the building is closed up and it is air- 

 tight, that only stays there until the next cold wave comes, per- 

 haps a week later; then it is opened again and re-shut, and by 

 the time we are ready to put our fruit in there, that building is 

 cooled through and through, and if it is a large building it won't 

 matter even if the doors are opened during a moderately warm 

 spell. By cooling up our house in this way we have it suffi- 

 ciently cool to put our winter-keeping apples in and hold them 

 until spring. Then when the cold days of winter come, if our 

 building is air-tight so that the cold can't get in, there is no 

 danger of freezing, and when the warm days come if it is so 

 tight that the warmth can't get in, the apples will remain all 

 right. You know we don't manufacture anything in the hold- 

 ing of apples by cold storage, but we are holding what has 

 already been built, we are holding the apple till the proper time 

 comes for the market to consume it. 



Now there are many considerations in holding this fruit that 

 we want to think of and study as we go along. Some will say: 

 How will you put these apples into the cold storage building? 

 Well, the Rhode Island Greening and that class of apples that 

 are inclined to scald, should always be put in as near to a condi- 

 tion like this as may be. Crates, perhaps bushel crates, with 

 board ends, with lath on the three sides, making a genuine little 

 crate — it is a storage crate — and these crates filled with Green- 

 ings and placed one above another take but very little room. 

 There isn't the room consumed that there is with barrels, and the 

 air comes in contact with every apple all the time while it is in 

 storage. Some of you may say. Well, our building is air-tight, 

 what matter whether it is in a barrel or a crate? But with the 

 Rhode Island Greening it does matter ; and those apples should 

 not be where there will be any inclination to heating in the middle 

 of the barrel — not a genuine heat but just a little heating which 

 causes them to scald. The scald is all we fear in storing the 

 Greenings. The Northern Spy, the Baldwin, the Ben Davis 

 and that class of apples can be just as well held in great bins 

 that will hold a few hundred barrels, if you will, as any other 

 way. 



This fall we commenced our harvesting of the apple crop and 

 we were short of barrels, but we didn't care very much and 



