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state; pomologicai, society. 



Now about the building of the storehouse. How tight has 

 it got to be? To build a fruit house, if you are going to build 

 it of lumber, use studding as wide as you want your air-space, 

 and it don't matter much whether two inches, one inch, or five 

 or six. And the way mine is built is studding up and down, 

 tight boarding outside, matched lumber, lathed and plastered 

 inside — lath and plaster in the middle and leave an air space on 

 the inside, and then seal up on the inside with tight boarding 

 leaves another air space, a little paper and then sheathing com- 

 pletes that wall air-tight ; and then paper and clapboards on the 

 outside makes it double air-tight and there is no circulation of 

 air ; double windows and have shutters outside. 



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Storage House of T. L. Kinney, South Hero, Vt. 



Now about the moisture, in keeping fruit in that fruit-house, 

 it will get wonderfully moist in there. I have seen the ceiling 

 in the upper room in that fruit house all covered, quite thick, 

 perhaps an eighth of an inch of ice, just occasioned from the 

 steam coming from the apples. It goes up there and freezes and 

 gathers. 



Now I don't think it is necessary to keep that atmosphere dry. 

 I think it is better to have it moist. I think it is better to hold 

 that moisture in. But that is a matter of ventilation which 

 might aggravate a good deal of discussion on the ventilation of 

 an apple storehouse. If a body of apples are wet, or very wet, I 

 don't think it makes any difference in the keeping quality of 



