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Question. I would like to ask about using cement in con- 

 struction for a cold storage house, what the experience has been 

 that way. 



Mr. Kinney. We haven't any experience, that is, in cement 

 buildings you mean? cement walls? But they must be good if 

 you can hold them, keep them. I have never cemented the bot- 

 tom of our storehouse because the atmospheric condition com- 

 ing up from the ground we think is beneficial ; perhaps it isn't. 

 It would be very convenient if the bottom of the storehouse was 

 all cemented in rolling the barrels and that kind of work, but we 

 leave it in order to get surface on the ground ; that we think 

 helps us quite a good deal. 



MAINE FRUIT AS IT APPEARS TO OTHERS. 



By A. A. HixoN, Secretary Worcester County Horticultural 



Society, Worcester, Mass. 



I won't trouble you many minutes. I always like to introduce 

 myself before I begin to talk. Unfortunately I am secretary 

 of a horticultural society — not a society that meets once a year, 

 but a society that owns its building, has its own offices, an office 

 that I occupy and occupy exactly the same as a lawyer or a 

 doctor does — I go down early in the morning and I stay there 

 until late at night. Always on deck, always ready to answer 

 any question or questions, and as the librarian of a library 

 always ready to see that people have the proper books that they 

 would like to take out. And we are right in the center of a city 

 of 145,000 inhabitants, exactly on the street where every electric 

 car that comes in from out of t-own stops and deposits its pas- 

 sengers. We are only one floor up. We have twenty-six exhi- 

 bitions a year. Every horticulturist and every agriculturist that 

 goes through the city of Worcester and has time to stop gener- 

 ally comes in to see me. I have been there seventeen years in 

 charge of that property, and its exhibitions. We have twenty- 

 six exhibitions a year and for seventeen years I have had sole 

 control of twenty-six exhibitions a year, and for the eleven years 

 previous partial charge and clerk of the committee of arrange- 

 ments ; consequently somewhere from twenty-five to twenty- 



